Torrey Pines Elementary

Torrey Pines Elementary is a medium-sized elementary campus in La Jolla, California, part of San Diego Unified. The school caters to 465 students in grades K through 5.

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

On the student-mix side, Torrey Pines Elementary lists that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 22% Asian, 18% Hispanic, 14% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.5:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 17% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Torrey Pines Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 69.5%; Torrey Pines Elementary posts 85.2%, +15.7 points above that line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (San Diego County) records that median household earnings sit near $106,268, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across San Diego County's 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), Torrey Pines Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Doyle Elementary, around 1.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Torrey Pines Elementary. On composite proficiency, Torrey Pines Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 65.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Torrey Pines Elementary's enrollment has edged down 3% since 2018, when it stood at 480 (now 465). White enrollment moved from 57% to 47% across the same window.

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