Felicita Elementary

Felicita Elementary is an average-sized primary school in Escondido, California, operated by Escondido Union. The school educates 478 students in grades K through 5.

Across the 24 schools in Escondido Union (13,920 students total), Felicita Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Felicita Elementary logs that 90% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 5% White, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Felicita Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 92% of students at Felicita Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. 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, Felicita Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.9%, the actual is 19.8%, a residual of -5.1 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for San Diego County put the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, 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 Felicita Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Miller Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Felicita Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 32.3%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 17%: 578 students in 2018 compared to 478 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share declined from 97% to 90%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 today.

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