Ibarra Elementary School in College Area is a San Diego Unified School District campus serving kindergarten through fifth grade at 4877 Orange Avenue in San Diego's 92115 ZIP. The school opened in September 2005 and is named after Herbert Ibarra, enrolling approximately 392 students across 16 full-time teachers with one full-time counselor. Ibarra holds Title I schoolwide designation and operates a Gifted and Talented Education program that provides accelerated instruction for qualifying students alongside the school's core standards-based curriculum. The Orange Avenue campus sits in the residential blocks south of El Cajon Boulevard, within the reading and literacy resource network that includes the College-Rolando Branch Library serving the same College Area and Rolando attendance zones. The school's attendance boundary draws from the neighborhoods between University Avenue and the 94 freeway, an area where 93 percent of enrolled families qualify as economically disadvantaged under federal standards. Principal Mariclaret Patton leads the campus through a focus on standards-aligned instruction and community engagement. The early-education feeder network in the surrounding College Area neighborhood includes programs such as Kids Ave Enrichment Learning Center, which prepares preschool-age children for the kindergarten transition into campuses across the 92115 ZIP. The school's feeder pattern routes graduates into Hoover High School's attendance zone on El Cajon Boulevard, maintaining a K-12 pipeline within the College Area corridor.