Spreckels Elementary

Set in San Diego, California, Spreckels Elementary is a reasonably sized K-5 school, run under San Diego Unified. It enrolls 680 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 46% larger than the state mean of about 465.

San Diego Unified runs 174 schools in total, collectively educating 94,828 students. Spreckels Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Spreckels Elementary logs that 47% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 30% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 9% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with San Diego County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 27.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 36% of students at Spreckels Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against San Diego County (around 54%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Spreckels Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.3%; this one delivers 64.9%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (San Diego County) records that median household income runs about $106,268, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Spreckels Elementary is one of 766 public schools in San Diego County (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students).

Standley Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Spreckels Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Spreckels Elementary at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 57.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 4%: 656 students in 2018 compared to 680 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked down from 41% to 30% over that span. Class-load math has rose: from 25.2:1 in 2018 to 27.2:1 in 2025.

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