Glen View Elementary

Glen View Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Escondido, California, part of Escondido Union. Current enrollment sits at 548 students spanning grades K through 5.

Escondido Union comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 13,920 students; Glen View Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Glen View Elementary shows that nearly all students (84%) are Hispanic. The remainder looks like 5% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Glen View Elementary has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Glen View Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.0%; this one delivers 32.8%.

In the area at large, census data for San Diego County shows the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Glen View Elementary is one.

Escondido Charter High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Glen View Elementary. On composite proficiency, Glen View Elementary comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 27.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Glen View Elementary has contracted 16%, going from 651 students in 2018 to 548 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.

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