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Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5

Discovery Elementary, San Marcos, CA

Discovery Elementary is a public elementary school in San Marcos, part of San Marcos Unified. It enrolled 717 students in 2024-25, with 26.6 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
717
Teachers (FTE)
27.0
Students per teacher
26.6
Grades
K to 5

This school's ratio is 3.1 higher than the district figure of 23.5. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school26.6
District23.5
California21.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
730 Applewilde Dr., San Marcos, CA 92078
Phone
(760)290-2077
District
San Marcos Unified
County
San Diego County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
063488007353
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
110
Reduced-price lunch
15
Free or reduced-price lunch
12517.4% of enrollment.
Direct certification
94Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
No

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 elementary schools in San Marcos Unified

Elementary schools elsewhere in San Marcos

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.