Rock Springs Elementary

Rock Springs Elementary is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in Escondido, California, run under Escondido Union, with 498 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Escondido Union runs 24 schools in total, collectively educating 13,920 students. Rock Springs Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Rock Springs Elementary logs that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 7% White, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Rock Springs Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

After controlling for student poverty, Rock Springs Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.4%, the actual is 29.0%, a residual of +1.6 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for San Diego County indicate median household income runs about $106,268, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across San Diego County's 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), Rock Springs Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Dimensions Collaborative, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rock Springs Elementary at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 38.9%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 11%: 561 students in 2018 compared to 498 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 75% to 82%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.

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