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How has Ramona Elementary changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
434
Elementary
DISTRICT 427 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RAMONA CITY UNIFIED·NCES 063171004907
Ramona Elementary
415 Eighth St., Ramona, CA 92065 · (760) 787-4400 · San Diego County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL434 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 15% of California public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
22.8:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.6:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
365 students
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 65%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 85 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 47 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 61 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 52 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 55 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (85) is 55% larger than its 6th grade class (55).
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
23.9%
CA avg 49.1% . -6.1pp since 2014
Math
20.1%
CA avg 37.7% . -9.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 10 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 9.9% | 14.0% | 26.8% | 49.4% |
| Math | 7.0% | 13.1% | 21.3% | 58.6% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.9% | 20.1% |
| 2023-24 | 27.0% | 21.9% |
| 2022-23 | 21.8% | 13.2% |
| 2021-22 | 28.6% | 17.9% |
| 2018-19 | 35.7% | 22.0% |
| 2017-18 | 33.8% | 21.5% |
| 2016-17 | 31.9% | 22.8% |
| 2015-16 | 31.0% | 29.0% |
| 2014-15 | 30.0% | 30.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
23.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.3%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Ramona Elementary
Ramona Elementary's state test result (23.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ramona Elementary this school | 434 | 84.1% | 23.5% |
| Glen Speck Elementary Paso Robles | 454 | 83.5% | 29.3% |
| Fairview Elementary Orland | 458 | 84.9% | 17.7% |
| Dunlap Elementary Yucaipa | 382 | 83.0% | 25.9% |
| Winifred Pifer Elementary Paso Robles | 492 | 81.7% | 30.1% |
| Lincoln Elementary Exeter | 522 | 82.2% | 43.2% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Ramona Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In San Diego County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.5% | #4,246 of 5,151 | #342 of 392 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.1% | #4,296 of 5,172 ▼ 331 | #342 of 393 ▼ 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.9% | #4,582 of 5,172 ▼ 464 | #365 of 393 ▼ 32 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.3pp | #1,412 of 5,116 | #132 of 387 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 434 | #3,234 of 5,915 | #245 of 453 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.8:1 | #2,865 of 5,352 | #189 of 418 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.0% | #3,187 of 5,354 | #304 of 418 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.1% | #1,752 of 5,625 | #81 of 442 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.9% | #2,958 of 3,837 | #211 of 279 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
434
+38 (+10%) vs 2020
-42% since 1990-91, when it was 746
Student : Teacher
22.8:1
was 23.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 434 | 19 | 22.8:1 | 84% (365) |
| 2023-24 | 400 | 18 | 22.2:1 | 85% (340) |
| 2022-23 | 376 | 16 | 23.5:1 | 86% (322) |
| 2020-21 | 396 | 17 | 23.3:1 | 56% (221) |
| 2017-18 | 471 | 16 | 29.4:1 | 80% (375) |
| 2015-16 | 459 | 16 | 28.7:1 | 81% (374) |
| 2010-11 | 478 | N/A | N/A | 69% (329) |
| 2000-01 | 730 | 37 | 19.7:1 | 61% (444) |
| 1990-91 | 746 | 31 | 24.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ramona Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (471 to 434); teachers up 19% (16 to 19).
About Ramona Elementary
Located in Ramona, California, Ramona Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school. There are 434 students enrolled, covering kindergarten through 6.
Ramona City Unified serves 4,945 students across 11 schools.
Of every 100 students at Ramona Elementary, about 71 are Hispanic. It is also 23% White and 5% multiracial. San Diego County's residents are about 35% Hispanic, 37 points below the school's share. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 44%.
The school's 19 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 22.8:1. The 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California is close to this figure. Income data for the school show 84% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 54% average among public schools in San Diego County.
Among California public elementary schools, Ramona Elementary outscored 15%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Ramona Elementary is 6.8 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 23.5% actual, 30.3% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in California.
The county, San Diego County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $106,268, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. The county has 766 public schools and about 467,437 students.
About 0.2 miles separate Ramona Elementary from the closest public school, Montecito High (Continuation). Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 34.1%; Ramona Elementary's is 23.5%, ranking 5th of 5.
Ramona Elementary has an NCES locale of Town: Fringe.
The school's enrollment increased 10% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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San Diego County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
3,288,774
Census ACS
Median income
$106,268
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
766
467,437 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Ramona City Unified
- Ramona HighHigh · 1,404 students
- Olive Peirce MiddleMiddle · 680 students
- Hanson ElementaryElementary · 547 students
- James Dukes ElementaryElementary · 502 students
- Barnett ElementaryElementary · 465 students
- Mt. Woodson ElementaryElementary · 349 students
Other schools in Ramona
- Ramona HighHigh · 1,404 students
- Olive Peirce MiddleMiddle · 680 students
- Hanson ElementaryElementary · 547 students
- James Dukes ElementaryElementary · 502 students
- Barnett ElementaryElementary · 465 students
- Mt. Woodson ElementaryElementary · 349 students
Other Ramona Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 1 state are named Ramona Elementary. Ramona Elementary is the 7th largest of the 8.
- Ramona ElementaryHemet, CA · 702 students
- Ramona ElementaryAlhambra, CA · 650 students
- Ramona ElementaryOxnard, CA · 568 students
- Ramona ElementaryMontclair, CA · 556 students
- Ramona ElementaryMoreno Valley, CA · 528 students
Nearby schools
- Montecito High (Continuation)0.2 mi · 92
- Future Bound Independent Study Secondary0.2 mi · 23
- Ramona High1.1 mi · 1,404
- Olive Peirce Middle1.1 mi · 680
- Ramona Community Montessori1.3 mi · 267
- Mountain Valley Academy1.3 mi · 182
Frequently asked questions
About Ramona ElementaryHow many students attend Ramona Elementary?
Ramona Elementary enrolls approximately 434 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Ramona Elementary serve?
Ramona Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Ramona Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Ramona Elementary is approximately 22.8:1 (19 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Ramona Elementary?
At Ramona Elementary, the student body is approximately 23% White, 71% Hispanic, 1% Black, 5% Two or more.
Is Ramona Elementary public or private?
Ramona Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Ramona City Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.