Kumeyaay Elementary

Kumeyaay Elementary is an average-sized K-5 school in San Diego, California, part of San Diego Unified. The school hosts 398 students in grades K through 5.

Kumeyaay Elementary is one of 174 schools operated by San Diego Unified, a district that educates 94,828 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Kumeyaay Elementary logs that 41% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 25% Hispanic, 15% multiracial, 15% Asian, 3% Black.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 27% of students at Kumeyaay Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, San Diego County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Kumeyaay Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.5%; this one delivers 70.5%.

In the surrounding community, San Diego County reports 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%. Across San Diego County's 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), Kumeyaay Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: De Portola Middle, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kumeyaay Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kumeyaay Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 54.7%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kumeyaay Elementary has declined 8%, going from 431 students in 2018 to 398 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 49% to 41%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 26.1:1 in 2018 to 23.4:1 today.

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