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Enrollment
468
Elementary
DISTRICT 459 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH BAY UNION·NCES 063738008308
Teofilo Mendoza
2050 Coronado Ave., San Diego, CA 92154 · (619) 424-0100 · San Diego County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL468 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 13% of California public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
24.6:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 24.7:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
306 students
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 56 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 85 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 11% smaller than its 6th grade class (85).
Student demographics
18%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 25% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
27.3%
CA avg 49.1% . -4.7pp since 2014
Math
17.4%
CA avg 37.7% . -0.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 11.2% | 16.1% | 25.1% | 47.6% |
| Math | 7.3% | 10.2% | 22.9% | 59.6% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.3% | 17.4% |
| 2023-24 | 25.4% | 15.8% |
| 2022-23 | 26.0% | 13.9% |
| 2021-22 | 19.5% | 11.9% |
| 2020-21 | 15.4% | 10.4% |
| 2018-19 | 28.7% | 19.5% |
| 2017-18 | 33.5% | 19.8% |
| 2016-17 | 32.5% | 21.8% |
| 2015-16 | 41.0% | 24.0% |
| 2014-15 | 32.0% | 18.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
21.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.2%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 41% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Teofilo Mendoza
Teofilo Mendoza's state test result (21.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teofilo Mendoza this school | 468 | 65.4% | 21.7% |
| ASCEND Oakland | 493 | 63.9% | N/A |
| Lake Los Angeles Elementary Palmdale | 533 | 63.8% | 16.2% |
| Orchard Dale Elementary Whittier | 472 | 63.8% | 49.7% |
| Rosebank Elementary Chula Vista | 485 | 64.3% | 35.1% |
| Multicultural Learning Center Canoga Park | 496 | 60.5% | N/A |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Teofilo Mendoza ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In San Diego County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.7% | #4,419 of 5,151 | #356 of 392 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.4% | #4,526 of 5,172 ▲ 87 | #356 of 393 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.3% | #4,234 of 5,172 ▲ 29 | #341 of 393 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.7pp | #1,208 of 5,116 | #78 of 387 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 468 | #2,825 of 5,915 | #214 of 453 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.6:1 | #4,187 of 5,352 | #315 of 418 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 18.4% | #4,505 of 5,354 | #377 of 418 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.4% | #3,210 of 5,625 | #195 of 442 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -41.3% | #124 of 3,837 | #4 of 279 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
468
-161 (-26%) vs 2020
-63% since 2000-01, when it was 1,256
Student : Teacher
24.6:1
was 24.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 468 | 19 | 24.6:1 | 65% (306) |
| 2023-24 | 466 | 20 | 23.3:1 | 59% (273) |
| 2022-23 | 531 | 22 | 24.1:1 | 71% (379) |
| 2020-21 | 629 | 26 | 24.2:1 | 56% (350) |
| 2017-18 | 797 | 32 | 24.9:1 | 78% (624) |
| 2015-16 | 907 | 33 | 27.5:1 | 70% (634) |
| 2010-11 | 958 | N/A | N/A | 77% (739) |
| 2000-01 | 1,256 | 56 | 22.4:1 | 51% (645) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Teofilo Mendoza.
Since 2017-18: students down 41% (797 to 468); teachers down 41% (32 to 19).
About Teofilo Mendoza
Teofilo Mendoza operates as a mid-sized elementary school in San Diego, California. Total enrollment is 468 students, and the grades served are kindergarten through 6.
South Bay Union is responsible for 12 schools, Teofilo Mendoza included, with 5,513 students in all.
The share of students at Teofilo Mendoza who are Hispanic is 90%. Other groups make up 4% multiracial and 4% Black. County-wide, 35% of San Diego County residents are Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 18%.
Its ratio of 24.6:1 is based on 19 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in California have an average ratio of 22.3:1. In all, 65% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 54% average for public schools in San Diego County.
Teofilo Mendoza earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 13% of California public elementary schools.
Teofilo Mendoza is 19.5 points below expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the bottom 10% in California.
For San Diego County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $106,268 a year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in San Diego County number 766, with about 467,437 students.
Of the public schools around it, Teofilo Mendoza is closest to Emory Elementary, about 0.2 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, Teofilo Mendoza places 7th out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
Federal data place Teofilo Mendoza in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell 26%.
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San Diego County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
3,288,774
Census ACS
Median income
$106,268
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
766
467,437 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in South Bay Union
- Nestor Language Academy CharterElementary · 1,079 students
- Imperial Beach CharterElementary · 724 students
- George Nicoloff ElementaryElementary · 616 students
- Oneonta ElementaryElementary · 434 students
- Howard Pence ElementaryElementary · 419 students
- Emory ElementaryElementary · 399 students
Other schools in San Diego
- Del Norte HighHigh · 2,557 students
- Torrey Pines HighHigh · 2,536 students
- Henry HighHigh · 2,485 students
- Rancho Bernardo HighHigh · 2,210 students
- Mira Mesa HighHigh · 2,187 students
- Canyon Crest AcademyHigh · 2,147 students
Nearby schools
- Emory Elementary0.2 mi · 399
- Mar Vista Academy0.5 mi · 462
- Nestor Language Academy Charter0.6 mi · 1,079
- Sunnyslope Elementary0.6 mi · 324
- Godfrey G. Berry Elementary0.7 mi · 273
- Southwest Senior High0.8 mi · 1,563
Frequently asked questions
About Teofilo MendozaHow large is Teofilo Mendoza?
Teofilo Mendoza enrolls approximately 468 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Teofilo Mendoza serve?
Teofilo Mendoza serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Teofilo Mendoza?
Approximately 24.6:1 students per teacher at Teofilo Mendoza.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Teofilo Mendoza?
At Teofilo Mendoza, the student body is approximately 2% White, 90% Hispanic, 4% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Teofilo Mendoza public or private?
Teofilo Mendoza is a public K-12 school, overseen by South Bay Union.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.