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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

San Elijo Middle, San Marcos, CA

San Elijo Middle is a public middle school in San Marcos, part of San Marcos Unified. It enrolled 1,395 students in 2024-25, with 23.2 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
1,395
Teachers (FTE)
60.0
Students per teacher
23.2
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is about the same as 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 school23.2
District23.5
California21.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
1600 Schoolhouse Way, San Marcos, CA 92078
Phone
(760)290-2800
District
San Marcos Unified
County
San Diego County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
063488011403
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
226
Reduced-price lunch
40
Free or reduced-price lunch
26619.1% of enrollment.
Direct certification
193Students 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 middle schools in San Marcos Unified

Middle 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.