Sunnyslope Elementary

Sunnyslope Elementary is one of the low-enrollment elementary-level communitys in San Diego, California, one of the schools within South Bay Union, with 324 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 30% below typical.

Within South Bay Union, which oversees 12 schools and 5,513 students, Sunnyslope Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Sunnyslope Elementary records that nearly all students (94%) are Hispanic. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 78% of students at Sunnyslope Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against San Diego County (around 54%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sunnyslope Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.0%, the actual is 27.1%, a residual of -5.9 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for San Diego County put the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Sunnyslope Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Teofilo Mendoza, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sunnyslope Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.0%.

Sunnyslope Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sunnyslope Elementary has decreased 39%, going from 531 students in 2018 to 324 in 2025.

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