Fay Elementary

Located at 4080 52nd St., in San Diego, California, Fay Elementary is an average-sized elementary school that teaches 514 students (grades K through 5), operated by San Diego Unified.

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

Looking at the student body, Fay Elementary records that 61% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 24% Black, 7% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 35% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 27.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 96% of students at Fay Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against San Diego County (around 54%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fay Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.2%; this one delivers 20.9%.

Around the school, 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. Across San Diego County's 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), Fay Elementary is one campus in the mix.

City Heights Preparatory Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fay Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fay Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 27.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 20%: 642 students in 2018 compared to 514 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 17% to 7% across the same window.

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