Perry Elementary

Perry Elementary is a compact elementary-level community in San Diego, California, one of the schools within San Diego Unified. The school enrolls 341 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Perry Elementary sits 27% leaner than that benchmark.

Within San Diego Unified, which oversees 174 schools and 94,828 students, Perry Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Perry Elementary shows that 38% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 17% Black, 16% Asian, 14% White, 13% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Perry Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.0%, the actual is 41.7%, a residual of +5.7 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for San Diego County indicate median household earnings sit near $106,268, 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 Perry Elementary is one.

Paradise Hills Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Perry Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Perry Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 41.8%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Perry Elementary has contracted 7%, going from 365 students in 2018 to 341 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 31% to 38%.

On allk12, the feed for Perry Elementary typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.