Murray Manor Elementary

Murray Manor Elementary, a mid-tier elementary campus in La Mesa, California, part of La Mesa-Spring Valley, teaches 530 students, covering grades K through 5.

La Mesa-Spring Valley runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 10,491 students. Murray Manor Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Murray Manor Elementary shows that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 36% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 6% Asian, 5% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, Murray Manor Elementary shows 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Murray Manor Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Murray Manor Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.7%, the actual is 55.1%, a residual of +5.4 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (San Diego County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Murray Manor Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Benchley/Weinberger Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Murray Manor Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 49.9%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 25%: 709 students in 2018 compared to 530 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 28.9:1 in 2018 to 25.2:1 today.

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