Public school / Primary
Paul Ecke-Central Elementary
Encinitas, California
- NCES ID
- 061275001434
- District
- Encinitas Union Elementary
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Paul Ecke-Central Elementary is a public primary school in Encinitas, California, run by Encinitas Union Elementary. It enrols 608 students — the 26098th 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
608
Teachers
27.0
Students per teacher
22.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
23.4%
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 Encinitas Union Elementary
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.
- 1La Costa Heights Elementary634 students
- 2Capri Elementary631 students
- 3Paul Ecke-Central Elementary608 students
- 4Olivenhain Pioneer Elementary570 students
- 5Ocean Knoll Elementary523 students
- 6El Camino Creek Elementary459 students
- 7Park Dale Lane Elementary437 students
- 8Flora Vista Elementary408 students
- Enrollment+28.3%
- Teachers+28.6%
- Students per teacher+1.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−65.5%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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