Winter Gardens Elementary

At 8501 Pueblo Rd. in Lakeside, California, Winter Gardens Elementary operates as a small elementary school. It reports enrollment of 269 students in kindergarten through 1. Across elementary schools in California, the average enrollment is about 465.

Lakeside Union Elementary enrolls 4,504 students in 9 schools, including Winter Gardens Elementary.

Hispanic students are 52% of those enrolled at Winter Gardens Elementary. Next come 33% White, 9% multiracial, and 4% Asian. That compares with about 35% Hispanic among all San Diego County residents. A diversity index of 60% means there is a 60% chance two randomly chosen students at Winter Gardens Elementary are from different groups.

On staff are 12 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 22.4:1. The average for elementary schools in California is about 22.3:1. About 30% of students at Winter Gardens Elementary are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 54% for public schools in San Diego County.

In the wider San Diego County area, the median household earns about $106,268 a year, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Winter Gardens Elementary shares San Diego County with 765 other public schools.

Winter Gardens Elementary is about 0.7 miles from W. D. Hall Elementary, its nearest public school. Winter Gardens Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment figures show a decline of 57 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.

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