Knob Hill Elementary

Knob Hill Elementary operates as a heavily attended elementary-level community in San Marcos, California, overseen by San Marcos Unified. Current enrollment sits at 725 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 56% above the state mean of about 465.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Knob Hill Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 47%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 35% White, 10% Asian, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 35% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Knob Hill Elementary has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Knob Hill Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against San Diego County (around 54%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Knob Hill Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.5%, the actual is 57.2%, a residual of +0.7 points.

In the area at large, 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 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 Knob Hill Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Rock Springs Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Knob Hill Elementary at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 44.6%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Knob Hill Elementary has shrank 13%, going from 833 students in 2018 to 725 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 42% to 35% over that span.

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