Ibarra Elementary

Ibarra Elementary operates as a low-enrollment elementary school in San Diego, California, operated by San Diego Unified. Current enrollment sits at 390 students spanning grades K through 5.

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

Demographically, Ibarra Elementary reports that 69% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 19% Black, 7% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 98% of students are eligible 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, Ibarra Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 21.1%; this one delivers 28.3%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (San Diego County) records 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%. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Ibarra Elementary is one.

Euclid Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ibarra Elementary comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 24.7%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ibarra Elementary has decreased 18%, going from 475 students in 2018 to 390 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 55% to 69% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 26.4:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 today.

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