NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in La Jolla, CA

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6 public K-12 schools in La Jolla from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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6
Schools
4,155
Students
36.7/100
Avg Resource Index
24:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, La Jolla has more public-school enrollment than 46% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. La Jolla sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

3 of La Jolla's 6 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 19-point gap between La Jolla High and Torrey Pines Elementary shows the range hidden by La Jolla's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 54%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
32nd percentile
Teacher staffing
3rd percentile

La Jolla High accounts for 28.3% of all La Jolla public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means La Jolla-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

La Jolla school enrollment varies 3.1× across entities

La Jolla school enrollment ranges from 383 students (lowest) to 1,174 students (highest), a spread of 791 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

La Jolla student-teacher ratio is 24.0:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

1 of La Jolla's 6 listed schools are charters

17% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

# School Score
1. La Jolla High 43
2. Bird Rock Elementary 41
3. La Jolla Elementary 40
4. Muirlands Middle 39
5. Preuss School Ucsd 33
6. Torrey Pines Elementary 24

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in La Jolla

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Torrey Pines Elementary 68.4/100
  2. 2 La Jolla High 61.7/100
  3. 3 Preuss School Ucsd 61.3/100
  4. 4 Muirlands Middle 60.5/100
  5. 5 La Jolla Elementary 57.0/100

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Which La Jolla school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

La Jolla High has the highest Resource Investment Index among the La Jolla schools in this federal-data comparison at 43/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in La Jolla, CA? ▼

La Jolla has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,155 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 24:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.