Greater San Diego Academy, Jamul CA

Original Research by School Decision on Greater San Diego Academy

Greater San Diego Academy is a K-12 charter school serving students from kindergarten through high school in the rural Jamul area of southeastern San Diego County. It enrolls a small population spread across all grade levels, with roughly a quarter of its students in the earliest grades and a sparse distribution through high school.

The school's academic performance shows mixed results with notable weakness at the elementary level. In early grades, proficiency in both English language arts and math is quite low. Third graders showed very limited proficiency in reading and math alike. Fourth graders performed poorly in both subjects. By fifth grade, reading performance jumped substantially, but math remained weak. Middle grades showed more variation: seventh graders reached proficiency in about half of cases in math and more than half in reading, while sixth and eighth graders fell back to lower levels in both subjects. Science proficiency in the tested grades, fifth and eighth, sat below half. Overall across tested subjects and grades, the school's proficiency index places it below the midpoint relative to other schools assessed in San Diego County.

The school serves a population that is roughly evenly split between students from households qualifying for free or reduced lunch and those that do not. The student body is majority Hispanic, with substantial white enrollment, and includes students from Black, multiracial, and Native American backgrounds. Specific data on English learner and special education enrollment rates were not available.

Jamul itself is a low-density, rural-to-semi-rural unincorporated community set in the foothills about an hour east of downtown San Diego. Housing consists predominantly of single-family homes on large parcels, including ranch properties and custom estates with acreage, making it a car-dependent area with no walkable downtown or local civic core. The Jamul Casino is the most prominent local employer. Recent years have seen minimal population change, though larger planned developments in surrounding hills and a major land transfer to the Jamul Indian Village tribe signal potential shifts ahead.

The school is authorized through the Jamul-Dulzura Union School District and operates as a charter dependent homeschool program. No significant district-level policy changes or bond measures affecting the school were identified in recent years. A graduation rate for this school was not reported; state testing data cover only tested grades and subjects, leaving gaps in the full K-12 picture.

A parent considering this school should look closely at the elementary performance numbers, particularly in early grades and math, and may want to inquire directly with the school about instruction and support in those areas. The middle grades show more promise, especially in reading, though the small grade-by-grade cohorts mean year-to-year variation is normal at a school this size.

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Academic performance

State test results and graduation outcomes.

Graduation rate (ACGR)

>=50%Cohort of 12 students · Class of 2021

The federal source publishes a banded range instead of an exact rate when the graduating cohort is small enough that an exact number could risk identifying individual students.

How this school compares to all schools in this state

Each dot is one school’s SY 2020-21 graduation rate, binned by integer rate. Taller columns mean more schools at that rate. This school is highlighted.

2,394 schools plotted. 142 additional schools' rates are federally suppressed and not shown. Data: EDFacts SY 2020-21.

Math

Grade 327%

School 27% · district not reported

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 21 pts below county median

Grade 418%

School 18% · district not reported

▼ 20 pts below state median · ▼ 25 pts below county median

Grade 527%

School 27% · district not reported

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Grade 629%

School 29% · district not reported

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Grade 750%

School 50% · district not reported

▲ 20 pts above state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

Grade 833%

School 33% · district not reported

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▲ 2 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 39%

School 9% · district not reported

▼ 31 pts below state median · ▼ 38 pts below county median

Grade 424%

School 24% · district not reported

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 25 pts below county median

Grade 564%

School 64% · district not reported

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

Grade 636%

School 36% · district not reported

▼ 8 pts below state median · ▼ 16 pts below county median

Grade 756%

School 56% · district not reported

▲ 11 pts above state median · ▲ 4 pts above county median

Grade 840%

School 40% · district not reported

▼ 4 pts below state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Science

Grade 546%

School 46% · district not reported

▲ 17 pts above state median · ▲ 11 pts above county median

Grade 840%

School 40% · district not reported

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

This schoolDistrict average, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.