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La Mesa Dale Elementary

A public regular school in La Mesa, California, in La Mesa-Spring Valley. NCES’s record for 2024–25.

The school in 2024–25

460
Students enrolled: 17.5
Teachers, full-time equivalent: 314 68.3% of students
Eligible for free or reduced-price lunch: Eligibility, as the state reported it. It is not a count of family income.; 180
Directly certified for free meals

Students by grade, and by race and sex, 2024–25

Students at La Mesa Dale Elementary by grade, 2024–25, as NCES published them
Grade	Students
Kindergarten	101
Grade 1	71
Grade 2	73
Grade 3	76
Grade 4	70
Grade 5	69
Not Specified	0

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Students at La Mesa Dale Elementary by race/ethnicity and sex, 2024–25, as NCES published them
Race/ethnicity	Female	Male	Not Specified
American Indian or Alaska Native	0	0	Not in NCES’s file
Asian	11	14	Not in NCES’s file
Black or African American	25	26	Not in NCES’s file
Hispanic/Latino	116	115	Not in NCES’s file
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	0	1	Not in NCES’s file
Two or more races	22	28	Not in NCES’s file
White	40	62	Not in NCES’s file
Not Specified	Not in NCES’s file	Not in NCES’s file	0

NCES’s own subtotals, under its own names. The race and sex counts are NCES’s subtotal without adult education, so they can add to less than the enrollment above. A count NCES suppressed or did not receive says so; this site computes no cell, total or share from them.

How this compares

Students enrolled: 460 in 2024–⁠25: Larger than 55% of the 95,462 public schools in the fifty states and DC that report an enrollment. Larger than 48% of the 9,973 schools in California that report one.
Pupils per teacher: 26.3 in 2024–⁠25: More than 97% of the 91,868 schools reporting both pupils and teachers. Pupils per full-time-equivalent teacher, the school’s own two counts.

The school’s entry

Status: Open
Type: Regular School
Charter: No
Grades: Kindergarten to Grade 5
Level: Elementary
Locale: Suburb, large
County: San Diego County
School lunch program: Yes under Community Eligibility Option (CEO)
Virtual instruction: No virtual instruction
NCES school ID: 062025002431

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Sources

Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25 — National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education · U.S. Government work · retrieved October 21, 2026
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25.

Compiled automatically from Common Core of Data (CCD), 2024–25 by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

Data retrieved October 21, 2026