Enrollment
280
Elementary
DISTRICT 416 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAN DIEGO UNIFIED·NCES 063432011973
Rodriguez Elementary
825 South 31st St., San Diego, CA 92113 · (619) 699-4500 · San Diego County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL280 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 7% of California public elementary schools
- FTest 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
25.4:1
11 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.6:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
268 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 65%
Community
0
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 | 60 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 39 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 53 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 43 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 43 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 42 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 43% larger than its 5th grade class (42).
Student demographics
8%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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
15.3%
CA avg 49.1% . -5.7pp since 2014
Math
12.1%
CA avg 37.7% . -3.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 15 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 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 4 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 3.8% | 11.4% | 21.4% | 63.4% |
| Math | 0.8% | 11.4% | 28.0% | 59.9% |
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 | 15.3% | 12.1% |
| 2023-24 | 20.3% | 12.9% |
| 2022-23 | 21.0% | 12.6% |
| 2021-22 | 18.7% | 12.1% |
| 2018-19 | 32.8% | 25.0% |
| 2017-18 | 30.7% | 27.2% |
| 2016-17 | 24.1% | 27.7% |
| 2015-16 | 27.0% | 24.0% |
| 2014-15 | 21.0% | 16.0% |
% 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
15.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.5%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% 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 Rodriguez Elementary
Rodriguez Elementary's state test result (15.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rodriguez Elementary this school | 280 | 95.7% | 15.0% |
| Lillian Street Elementary Los Angeles | 302 | 94.7% | 29.5% |
| Christopher Dena Elementary Los Angeles | 313 | 94.9% | 34.8% |
| Huntington Drive Elementary Los Angeles | 282 | 92.9% | 26.4% |
| Kimbrough Elementary San Diego | 316 | 96.8% | 21.7% |
| Quincy Jones Elementary Los Angeles | 244 | 96.3% | 34.6% |
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 Rodriguez Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In San Diego County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.0% | #4,935 of 5,151 | #384 of 392 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.1% | #4,940 of 5,172 ▼ 102 | #384 of 393 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 15.3% | #5,041 of 5,172 ▼ 332 | #388 of 393 ▼ 11 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.7pp | #1,312 of 5,116 | #120 of 387 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 280 | #4,928 of 5,915 | #386 of 453 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 25.4:1 | #4,636 of 5,352 | #366 of 418 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 8.3% | #5,037 of 5,354 | #409 of 418 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.7% | #353 of 5,625 | #13 of 442 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -42.0% | #111 of 3,837 | #2 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
280
-103 (-27%) vs 2020
-51% since 2010-11, when it was 573
Student : Teacher
25.4:1
was 27.4:1
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 | 280 | 11 | 25.4:1 | 96% (268) |
| 2023-24 | 301 | 12.2 | 24.7:1 | 91% (273) |
| 2022-23 | 329 | 13.8 | 23.8:1 | 93% (306) |
| 2020-21 | 383 | 14 | 27.4:1 | 95% (362) |
| 2017-18 | 483 | 18 | 26.8:1 | 96% (465) |
| 2015-16 | 579 | 23 | 25.2:1 | 98% (565) |
| 2010-11 | 573 | N/A | N/A | 98% (562) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rodriguez Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 42% (483 to 280); teachers down 39% (18 to 11).
About Rodriguez Elementary
San Diego, California, is home to Rodriguez Elementary, a small elementary school. In all, 280 students attend the school in kindergarten through 5. That puts enrollment 40% below the 465-student average for elementary schools in California.
District-wide, San Diego Unified has 174 schools and 94,828 students.
A large majority of enrollment at Rodriguez Elementary is Hispanic, at 96%. After that, the student body is 3% Black. Among all residents of San Diego County, the Hispanic share is about 35%. The diversity index for Rodriguez Elementary is 8%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Rodriguez Elementary is 25.4:1, based on 11 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in California average 22.3:1. Lunch program data show 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Public schools in San Diego County average 54%.
Among California public elementary schools, Rodriguez Elementary outscored 7%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Rodriguez Elementary would score about 23.5%. It scores 15.0%, 8.5 points below that figure.
Looking at the county, San Diego County, 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.
Rodriguez Elementary is about 0.4 miles from Logan Memorial Educational Campus, its nearest public school. Rodriguez Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 21.7% on proficiency, and Rodriguez Elementary is below that at 15.0%.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Large.
From 383 students in 2020-21, enrollment decreased to 280 by 2024-25. The school's ratio dropped from 27.4:1 to 25.4:1 between 2020-21 and 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
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Other Rodriguez Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 2 states are named Rodriguez Elementary. Rodriguez Elementary is the 4th largest of the 4.
- Rodriguez Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 917 students
- Rodriguez Elementary SchoolSAN MARCOS, TX · 445 students
- Rodriguez Elementary SchoolAUSTIN, TX · 372 students
Nearby schools
- Logan Memorial Educational Campus0.4 mi · 1,467
- Mountain View0.5 mi · 195
- King-Chavez Academy of Excellence0.6 mi · 242
- Ralph Waldo Emerson Elementary0.6 mi · 456
- Burbank Elementary0.7 mi · 317
- King-Chavez Arts and Athletics Academy0.8 mi · 159
Frequently asked questions
About Rodriguez ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Rodriguez Elementary?
Rodriguez Elementary enrolls approximately 280 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Rodriguez Elementary serve?
Rodriguez Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Rodriguez Elementary?
Approximately 25.4:1 students per teacher at Rodriguez Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Rodriguez Elementary?
Student demographics at Rodriguez Elementary are roughly 1% White, 96% Hispanic, 3% Black, 0% Two or more.
Is Rodriguez Elementary public or private?
Rodriguez Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by San Diego Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.