Summary
Felicita Elementary is a K–5 school in Escondido, California, serving 478 students in Escondido Union School District. Its clearest academic concern is ELA: in 2025–26, 24% of students were proficient, compared with 49% statewide, 35% in the district and 36% at nearby same-district K–5 schools.
Science is Felicita’s strongest subject relative to nearby schools, while math also trails local peers. Science proficiency was 27%, essentially level with the nearby-school average of 27% and slightly above the district’s 26%, though below the state’s 36%. Math proficiency was 25%, compared with 36% at nearby schools, 29% in the district and 38% statewide. Within the school, third-grade ELA was especially low at 16%, the lowest among the nine same-district K–5 schools; fifth-grade math was 19%, 17 points below the state. Chronic absenteeism has improved, but remains a concern: the 2025–26 rate was 23%, above the state’s 18% and the district’s 18%, and second-highest among those nearby schools.
Results have generally risen since 2022–23: ELA proficiency increased from 19% to 24%, math from 12% to 25%, and science from 10% to 27%. Science’s latest result was a sharp rebound from 8% in 2024–25, rather than a steady climb. Chronic absenteeism fell from 41% in 2021–22 to 23% in 2025–26. SchoolDigger rated Felicita at the 20th statewide percentile (1 star) in 2025–26, up from the 6th percentile in 2022–23. Its 2024–25 student–teacher ratio was 19.4, close to the nearby-school average of 18.9. In 2024–25, 92% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, compared with a 76% peer average. SchoolDigger’s 2025–26 ranking for Special Education Students was notably stronger than the overall ranking, at the 59th percentile versus the 20th; its English Language Learner Students ranking fell from the 70th percentile in 2021–22 to the 7th in 2022–23, then rose to the 14th in 2023–24.
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