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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Cajon Valley Middle, El Cajon, CA

CEP schoolCajon Valley Middle is a public middle school in El Cajon, part of Cajon Valley Union. It enrolled 942 students in 2024-25, with 20.5 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
942
Teachers (FTE)
46.0
Students per teacher
20.5
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is 3.3 lower than the district figure of 23.8. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school20.5
District23.8
California21.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
550 Park Ave., El Cajon, CA 92020
Phone
(619)588-3092
District
Cajon Valley Union
County
San Diego County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
060681000607
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
840
Reduced-price lunch
49
Free or reduced-price lunch
88994.4% of enrollment.
Direct certification
585Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other middle schools in Cajon Valley Union

Middle schools elsewhere in El Cajon

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.