Stone Ranch Elementary

Set in San Diego, California, Stone Ranch Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack primary school, part of Poway Unified. It educates 692 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 49% above the state mean of about 465.

Poway Unified comprises 39 schools with combined enrollment of 34,259 students; Stone Ranch Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Stone Ranch Elementary logs that the largest single group is Asian at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder consists of 29% White, 13% multiracial, 9% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 12% Asian, putting the school's mix considerably more Asian than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Stone Ranch Elementary reports 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 10% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, Stone Ranch Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 73.7%; this one delivers 76.6%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (San Diego County) reports that median household income runs about $106,268, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Stone Ranch Elementary is one.

Oak Valley Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Stone Ranch Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 74.1%.

Stone Ranch Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Stone Ranch Elementary's enrollment has shrank 25% since 2018, when it stood at 923 (now 692). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 40% to 29%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 26.6:1 in 2018 to 23.3:1 today.

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