Rodriguez Elementary

Rodriguez Elementary operates as a cozy elementary-level community in San Diego, California, one of the schools within San Diego Unified. Current enrollment sits at 280 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Rodriguez Elementary sits 40% below that benchmark.

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

In terms of who attends, Rodriguez Elementary records that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 35% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Rodriguez Elementary has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Rodriguez Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 96% of students at Rodriguez Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

After controlling for student poverty, Rodriguez Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 16.4%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (San Diego County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Rodriguez Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Logan Memorial Educational Campus, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Rodriguez Elementary comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 19.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 42%: 483 students in 2018 compared to 280 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 91% to 96% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 26.8:1 in 2018 to 25.4:1 in 2025.

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