Miramar Ranch Elementary

Located at 10770 Red Cedar Dr., in San Diego, California, Miramar Ranch Elementary is a moderately sized elementary-level community that works with 637 students (grades K through 5), run under San Diego Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 37% larger than the state mean of about 465.

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

Looking at the student body, Miramar Ranch Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Asian (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 33% White, 16% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 4% Black. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 12%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Miramar Ranch Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 23% of students at Miramar Ranch Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against San Diego County (around 54%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Miramar Ranch Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.0%, the actual is 74.7%, a residual of +8.7 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for San Diego County put the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Miramar Ranch Elementary is one of 766 public schools in San Diego County (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students).

Scripps Ranch High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Miramar Ranch Elementary at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 68.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 15%: 746 students in 2018 compared to 637 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment climbed from 26% to 34% over that span.

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