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Public school / Primary

Howard Pence Elementary

San Diego, California

NCES ID
063738006324
District
South Bay Union
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Howard Pence Elementary is a public primary school in San Diego, California, run by South Bay Union. It enrols 495 students — the 37865th 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

495students

37865th nationally, tied with 124

Teachers

20.0FTE

64854th nationally, tied with 2,293

Students per teacher

24.8students

89399th nationally, tied with 142

Free or reduced-price lunch

74.3%percent

26995th nationally, tied with 82

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 South Bay Union

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. 1Nestor Language Academy Charter1,036 students
  2. 2Imperial Beach Charter788 students
  3. 3George Nicoloff Elementary578 students
  4. 4Teofilo Mendoza531 students
  5. 5Howard Pence Elementary495 students
  6. 6Bayside Steam Academy410 students
  7. 7Central Elementary395 students
  8. 8Oneonta Elementary387 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+4.4%
  • Teachers−4.8%
  • Students per teacher+12.2%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch+9.4%
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Where this sits

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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.