Encanto Elementary

As an intimate elementary-level community in San Diego, California, Encanto Elementary enrolls 386 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within San Diego Unified.

Within San Diego Unified, which oversees 174 schools and 94,828 students, Encanto Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Encanto Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (81%). The remainder is composed of 8% Black, 4% Asian, 3% multiracial, 3% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, Encanto Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.8%; this one delivers 23.8%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for San Diego County indicate median household income runs about $106,268, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across San Diego County's 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), Encanto Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is San Altos Elementary, roughly 0.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Encanto Elementary comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 30.2%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Encanto Elementary has decreased 19%, going from 475 students in 2018 to 386 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 76% to 81% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 in 2025.

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