Rolando Park Elementary

Rolando Park Elementary, a low-enrollment elementary school in San Diego, California, overseen by San Diego Unified, instructs 270 students, covering grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 42% leaner than typical.

San Diego Unified comprises 174 schools with combined enrollment of 94,828 students; Rolando Park Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Rolando Park Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 17% Black, 13% White, 10% Asian, 9% multiracial. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against San Diego County (around 54%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Rolando Park Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 50.8%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (San Diego County) logs that median household income runs about $106,268, 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 Rolando Park Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Vista La Mesa Academy, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rolando Park Elementary. On composite proficiency, Rolando Park Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 29.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 32%: 205 students in 2018 compared to 270 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 20.8:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the Rolando Park Elementary community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.