Sci Tech Engr Arts and Math Acad at La Presa

As an average-sized middle-grades school in Spring Valley, California, Sci Tech Engr Arts and Math Acad at La Presa works with 800 students from grades 5 through 8, run under La Mesa-Spring Valley. That puts it 21% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

La Mesa-Spring Valley runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 10,491 students. Sci Tech Engr Arts and Math Acad at La Presa is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Sci Tech Engr Arts and Math Acad at La Presa logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 70% of enrollment. Other groups include 9% Black, 9% White, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

Looking at school resources, Sci Tech Engr Arts and Math Acad at La Presa lists 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Roughly 80% of students at Sci Tech Engr Arts and Math Acad at La Presa qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sci Tech Engr Arts and Math Acad at La Presa performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.0%, the actual is 32.6%, a residual of +0.6 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for San Diego County indicate the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Sci Tech Engr Arts and Math Acad at La Presa is one.

Nearest neighbor: Kempton Street Literacy Academy, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sci Tech Engr Arts and Math Acad at La Presa ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 27.1%.

Sci Tech Engr Arts and Math Acad at La Presa operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Sci Tech Engr Arts and Math Acad at La Presa's enrollment has fell 16% since 2018, when it stood at 952 (now 800). Class-load math has tightened: from 24.8:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 in 2025.

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