About San Marcos Unified School District
San Marcos Unified School District is a public school system serving San Diego County, California, based in San Marcos. It serves 18,860 students across 19 schools spanning K–12, and is classified as a suburb: large district. By enrollment it is the #64 largest of California’s 1976 school systems.
Size and structure
San Marcos Unified School District enrolls 18,860 students in 19 schools — an average of about 993 students per school. It serves grades K–12 and ranks #64 of 1976 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in San Marcos Unified School District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (18,860 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
San Marcos Unified School District employs about 804 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 23.5:1 — above the California average of about 21.7:1. Total district staff is roughly 1,616.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How California funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for San Marcos Unified School District are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
California reports school and district performance on the California School Dashboard, which rates indicators from red to blue across academic performance in English and math, chronic absenteeism, graduation rate, suspension rate, English-learner progress and college-and-career readiness. Look up San Marcos Unified School District on the California School Dashboard.
Accreditation status
In California, most schools that seek K–12 accreditation use ACS WASC (the Accrediting Commission for Schools, Western Association of Schools and Colleges) rather than Cognia. Search San Marcos Unified School District’s schools in the ACS WASC directory.
San Marcos Unified School District vs. California
See every California district side by side in the California directory.
Look up San Marcos Unified School District’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):