Fletcher Hills Elementary

Fletcher Hills Elementary is an elementary campus of moderately sized scale in El Cajon, California, overseen by La Mesa-Spring Valley, works with 540 students in grades K through 5.

La Mesa-Spring Valley runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 10,491 students. Fletcher Hills Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Fletcher Hills Elementary records that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 34% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Fletcher Hills Elementary logs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Fletcher Hills Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 34% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against San Diego County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Fletcher Hills Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.4%, the actual is 60.9%, a residual of +1.5 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (San Diego County) reports that 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 Fletcher Hills Elementary is one.

Northmont Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Fletcher Hills Elementary comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 36.2%.

Fletcher Hills Elementary operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 19%: 663 students in 2018 compared to 540 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 62% to 49% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 27.6:1 in 2018 to 25.7:1 in 2025.

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