Cubberley Elementary

As a low-enrollment elementary campus in San Diego, California, Cubberley Elementary enrolls 199 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within San Diego Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 57% below typical.

San Diego Unified runs 174 schools in total, collectively educating 94,828 students. Cubberley Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Cubberley Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 22% White, 21% multiracial, 12% Black, 12% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 56% of students at Cubberley Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Cubberley Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 46.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.3%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for San Diego County indicate median household income runs about $106,268, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Cubberley Elementary is one.

Taft Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cubberley Elementary at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 43.4%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 11%: 180 students in 2018 compared to 199 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 28% to 34% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.7:1 in 2018 to 23.4:1 today.

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