📍 24875 Potrero Valley Rd., Potrero, San Diego County, 91963
Potrero Elementary is a State/Public serving elementary age pupils, located in Potrero, San Diego County. The school has 319 pupils enrolled. The Principal is Lorena Enriquez. It is part of the Mountain Empire Unified school district. It serves grades K–6 in a rural setting. The school employs 13.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, a student-teacher ratio of 24.1:1.
Potrero Elementary enrolls 319 students across grades K–6. The student body is 53% male and 47% female. A teaching staff of 13.3 full-time-equivalent teachers supports the school, giving a student-teacher ratio of 24.1:1.
By race and ethnicity, the student body is 99% Hispanic or Latino and 1.3% White.
| Race / ethnicity | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Hispanic or Latino | 315 | 99% |
| White | 4 | 1.3% |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data.
232 of the school's 319 students (73%) qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility is a widely used indicator of the share of students from lower-income households.
Potrero Elementary is located in a rural setting (NCES locale: Rural, Distant). The school runs a schoolwide Title I program, which provides federal funding to support students from low-income families.
Potrero Elementary is one of 11 schools in Mountain Empire Unified, based in Pine Valley, California. The district serves 1,743 students district-wide and employs 86 full-time-equivalent teachers. With 319 students, Potrero Elementary is larger than the district average of about 158 students per school.