La Presa Elementary

As a tight-knit elementary campus in Spring Valley, California, La Presa Elementary teaches 346 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within La Mesa-Spring Valley. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so La Presa Elementary sits 26% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 22 schools in La Mesa-Spring Valley (10,491 students total), La Presa Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, La Presa Elementary shows that 71% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 10% White, 7% Black, 7% Asian, 5% multiracial. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, La Presa Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.0%, the actual is 33.7%, a residual of +1.7 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for San Diego County put median household income runs about $106,268, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across San Diego County's 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), La Presa Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Kempton Street Literacy Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), La Presa Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 28.6%.

La Presa Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at La Presa Elementary has declined 21%, going from 439 students in 2018 to 346 in 2025. The White share of enrollment expanded from 5% to 10% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 27.4:1 in 2018 to 24.7:1 in 2025.

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