Porter Elementary

Porter Elementary is one of the mid-tier K-5 schools in San Diego, California, part of San Diego Unified, with 590 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 27% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

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

Demographically, Porter Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 69% of enrollment; the rest consists of 17% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian, 2% Pacific Islander. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.6:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 96% of students at Porter 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 north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Porter Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.2%; this one delivers 16.2%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for San Diego County indicate the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Porter Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lincoln High, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Porter Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 20.9%.

Porter Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 35%: 911 students in 2018 compared to 590 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment declined from 73% to 69% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 26.0:1 in 2018 to 23.6:1 in 2025.

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