Hawthorne Elementary

Hawthorne Elementary is a primary school of small scale in San Diego, California, overseen by San Diego Unified, caters to 248 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Hawthorne Elementary sits 47% smaller than that benchmark.

San Diego Unified comprises 174 schools with combined enrollment of 94,828 students; Hawthorne Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hawthorne Elementary logs that 40% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest is composed of 31% White, 13% multiracial, 11% Asian, 2% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.6:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, San Diego County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Hawthorne Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.9%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (San Diego County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Hawthorne Elementary is one of 766 public schools in San Diego County (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students).

The closest other public school is Learning Choice Academy, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hawthorne Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 38.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hawthorne Elementary has ticked up 5%, going from 236 students in 2018 to 248 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged down from 53% to 40% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.6:1 in 2018 to 22.6:1 today.

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