Pacific Beach Middle

Pacific Beach Middle is a middle school of mid-sized scale in San Diego, California, run under San Diego Unified, hosting 715 students in grades 6 through 8.

San Diego Unified comprises 174 schools with combined enrollment of 94,828 students; Pacific Beach Middle is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Pacific Beach Middle reports that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 30% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 8% Asian, 2% Black. That composition is broadly in line with San Diego County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pacific Beach Middle is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 55.0%; this one delivers 71.3%, a residual of +16.3 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for San Diego County indicate the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Pacific Beach Middle is one.

The closest other public school is Crown Point Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Pacific Beach Middle at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 62.9%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pacific Beach Middle has ticked down 4%, going from 748 students in 2018 to 715 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share fell from 35% to 30%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.7:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 today.

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