Rosa Parks Elementary

Located at 4510 Landis St., in San Diego, California, Rosa Parks Elementary is a sizable primary school that educates 705 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within San Diego Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Rosa Parks Elementary sits 52% bigger than that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, Rosa Parks Elementary logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 76%; the rest breaks down as 14% Asian, 7% Black. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Rosa Parks Elementary has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 26.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Rosa Parks Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 98% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, San Diego County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rosa Parks Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.4%, the actual is 22.7%, a residual of +1.4 points.

In the broader community, census data for San Diego County shows the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Rosa Parks Elementary is one of 766 public schools in San Diego County (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students).

Clark Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Rosa Parks Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 26.1%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rosa Parks Elementary has declined 28%, going from 974 students in 2018 to 705 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment shrank from 81% to 76% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 25.0:1 in 2018 to 26.1:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.