Magnolia Elementary

Magnolia Elementary operates as a heavily attended elementary-level community in El Cajon, California, one of the schools within Cajon Valley Union. Current enrollment sits at 703 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Magnolia Elementary sits 51% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Cajon Valley Union, which oversees 25 schools and 15,974 students, Magnolia Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Magnolia Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 21% White, 14% Black, 12% Asian, 8% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Magnolia Elementary logs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 26.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 91% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

After controlling for student poverty, Magnolia Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 25.3%; Magnolia Elementary posts 8.2%, -17.0 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (San Diego County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across San Diego County's 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), Magnolia Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Altus Schools East County is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Magnolia Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Magnolia Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 23.1%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Magnolia Elementary's enrollment has ticked up 27% since 2018, when it stood at 552 (now 703). White enrollment moved from 30% to 21% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 24.9:1 in 2018 to 26.3:1 in 2025.

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