Potrero Elementary

Potrero Elementary operates as a modestly sized elementary campus in Potrero, California, overseen by Mountain Empire Unified. Current enrollment sits at 300 students spanning grades K through 6. That puts it 35% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Across the 8 schools in Mountain Empire Unified (1,738 students total), Potrero Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Potrero Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (99%). The wider county runs roughly 35% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Potrero Elementary has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Potrero Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 79% of students at Potrero Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, San Diego County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Potrero Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 32.4%; this one comes in at 9.7%, -22.8 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, census data for San Diego County shows median household income runs about $106,268, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Potrero Elementary is one of 766 public schools in San Diego County (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students).

Campo Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.7 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, Potrero Elementary comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 24.6%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Potrero Elementary has rose 18%, going from 255 students in 2018 to 300 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 95% to 99% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 25.0:1 today.

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