Public school / Primary
Discovery Elementary
San Marcos, California
- NCES ID
- 063488007353
- District
- San Marcos Unified
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Discovery Elementary is a public primary school in San Marcos, California, run by San Marcos Unified. It enrols 668 students — the 21337th largest of 10,418 public schools in California.
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
668
Teachers
28.0
Students per teacher
23.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
20.4%
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.
Within San Marcos 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.
- 1San Marcos High3,380 students
- 2Mission Hills High2,893 students
- 3San Elijo Middle1,463 students
- 4Double Peak1,211 students
- 5Woodland Park Middle1,183 students
- 6La Mirada Academy936 students
- 7San Marcos Middle931 students
- 8San Elijo Elementary858 students
- Enrollment+40.9%
- Teachers+33.3%
- Students per teacher+8.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−70.0%
Where this sits
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