Madison Avenue Elementary

Madison Avenue Elementary is a mid-tier primary school in El Cajon, California, overseen by Cajon Valley Union. The school serves 670 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 44% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Cajon Valley Union comprises 25 schools with combined enrollment of 15,974 students; Madison Avenue Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Madison Avenue Elementary shows that 47% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 35% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% Asian, 4% Black. That composition is broadly in line with San Diego County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.5:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 91% of students at Madison Avenue Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Madison Avenue Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.3%, the actual is 21.6%, a residual of -3.7 points.

In the broader community, San Diego County reports that median household earnings sit near $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), Madison Avenue Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Montgomery Middle, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Madison Avenue Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Madison Avenue Elementary at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 20.1%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 8%: 620 students in 2018 compared to 670 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged up from 40% to 47% over that span.

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