Summary
Del Sur Elementary serves 891 students in grades K–5 in San Diego and is part of Poway Unified, a highly ranked California district. SchoolDigger ranks the district 63rd of 968 statewide, and the school 149th of 5,804 California schools for 2025–26, at the 97th percentile with five stars. The most important takeaway is that Del Sur’s results are well above state and district levels in all three tested subjects, but science is its clearest relative weakness among nearby K–5 schools.
Del Sur is especially strong in English and math compared with nearby schools as well as the state and district. In 2025–26, 84% of students were proficient in English language arts, compared with 49% statewide, 74% in the district, and a 76% average among nearby K–5 schools; Del Sur ranked second among the nine K–5 schools. In math, its 81% proficiency was above the state’s 38%, the district’s 66%, and the nearby-school average of 76%, ranking third locally. Science proficiency was 68%—well above the state’s 36% and the district’s 64%, but just below the nearby-school average of 69%; Del Sur ranked second-lowest among those nine schools. So, despite strong results overall, science is the subject families may want to ask more about.
Del Sur remains well ahead of the state, although its lead narrowed between 2022–23 and 2025–26: the state-relative gaps shrank by 4 points in English, 3 in math, and 6 in science. The latest year brought a rebound in all three subjects, including a 6-point rise in science. In 2024–25, its student-teacher ratio was 23.9, the second-highest among 11 nearby schools, while chronic absenteeism was low at 3%, below the district’s 8% and the state’s 18%. In 2024–25, 9% of Del Sur students were free/reduced lunch eligible, compared with a 13% average among nearby schools. One notable SchoolDigger subgroup result is that its effectiveness ranking for Multi-racial Students was at the 77th percentile in 2025–26, 20 points below the school’s overall 97th-percentile standing; the subgroup ranking fell 19 points from 2023–24.
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