Joli Ann Leichtag Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Vista, California, Joli Ann Leichtag Elementary enrolls 579 students from grades K through 5, part of San Marcos Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Joli Ann Leichtag Elementary sits 25% larger than that benchmark.

Within San Marcos Unified, which oversees 19 schools and 18,837 students, Joli Ann Leichtag Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Joli Ann Leichtag Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment; the rest looks like 17% White, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 35% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Joli Ann Leichtag Elementary has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 69% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against San Diego County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Joli Ann Leichtag Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.3%, the actual is 47.6%, a residual of +9.2 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for San Diego County indicate the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Joli Ann Leichtag Elementary is one.

La Mirada Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Joli Ann Leichtag Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 42.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 24%: 765 students in 2018 compared to 579 in 2025.

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