Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5
Lemon Avenue Elementary, La Mesa, CA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 502
- Teachers (FTE)
- 18.0
- Students per teacher
- 27.9
- Grades
- K to 5
This school's ratio is 5.3 higher than the district figure of 22.6. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 8787 Lemon Ave., La Mesa, CA 91941
- Phone
- (619)668-5835
- County
- San Diego County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 062025002435
School meals
- Free lunch
- 174
- Reduced-price lunch
- 49
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 22344.4% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 138Students 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 elementary schools in La Mesa-Spring Valley School District
- Murdock Elementary 608 students
- Fletcher Hills Elementary 540 students
- Murray Manor Elementary 530 students
- Kempton Street Literacy Academy 480 students
- La Mesa Dale Elementary 460 students
- Maryland Avenue Elementary 451 students
- Northmont Elementary 422 students
- Bancroft Elementary 391 students
- Sweetwater Springs Elementary 378 students
- Rolando Elementary 371 students
- Highlands Elementary 357 students
- La Presa Elementary 346 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in La Mesa
- Avocado Elementary Cajon Valley Union
- Vista La Mesa Academy Lemon Grove School District
- Sparrow Academy Sparrow Academy District
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.