Jerabek Elementary

Jerabek Elementary operates as a well-populated K-5 school in San Diego, California, overseen by San Diego Unified. Current enrollment sits at 718 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 54% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

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

On demographics, Jerabek Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 17% Asian, 16% multiracial, 14% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 16% of students at Jerabek Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against San Diego County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Jerabek Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 69.8%; actual is 84.3%, +14.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for San Diego County indicate median household income runs about $106,268, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Jerabek Elementary is one of 766 public schools in San Diego County (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students).

The closest other public school is Miramar Ranch Elementary, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Jerabek Elementary at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 66.8%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 8%: 664 students in 2018 compared to 718 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 66% to 52% across the same window.

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