Florence Elementary

Set in San Diego, California, Florence Elementary is a tight-knit K-5 school, one of the schools within San Diego Unified. It hosts 213 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 54% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

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

Looking at the student body, Florence Elementary lists that 53% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 23% White, 12% multiracial, 8% Black, 4% Asian. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 11 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 Florence Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 65% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, Florence Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.9%; this one delivers 44.5%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for San Diego County shows 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), Florence Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Grant K-8 is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Florence Elementary comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 59.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 11%: 240 students in 2018 compared to 213 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share decreased from 61% to 53%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.8:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 in 2025.

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