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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

Alcott Elementary

San Diego, California

NCES ID
063432005408
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Alcott Elementary is a public primary school in San Diego, California, run by San Diego Unified. It enrols 189 students — the 79112th largest of 10,418 public schools in California.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

189students

79112th nationally, tied with 91

Teachers

10.0FTE

83266th nationally, tied with 1,383

Students per teacher

18.9students

74612th nationally, tied with 382

Free or reduced-price lunch

45.5%percent

55079th nationally, tied with 111

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within San Diego Unified

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Henry High2,607 students
  2. 2Hoover High2,265 students
  3. 3Mira Mesa High2,219 students
  4. 4San Diego High2,105 students
  5. 5Scripps Ranch High1,984 students
  6. 6Point Loma High1,714 students
  7. 7Morse High1,675 students
  8. 8University City High1,543 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: California median across 10,418 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−60.1%
  • Teachers−52.4%
  • Students per teacher−14.5%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−33.0%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.