Bonita Vista Senior High

Bonita Vista Senior High, a roomy secondary school in Chula Vista, California, overseen by Sweetwater Union High, serves 1,960 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Bonita Vista Senior High sits 134% above that benchmark.

Sweetwater Union High comprises 28 schools with combined enrollment of 33,517 students; Bonita Vista Senior High is among them.

In terms of who attends, Bonita Vista Senior High lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 65%. Other groups include 17% White, 10% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 90 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against San Diego County (around 54%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Bonita Vista Senior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.4%, the actual is 51.0%, a residual of -6.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for San Diego County indicate the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Bonita Vista Senior High is one of 766 public schools in San Diego County (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students).

Tiffany (Burton C.) Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bonita Vista Senior High. On composite proficiency, Bonita Vista Senior High comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 55.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bonita Vista Senior High has contracted 19%, going from 2,424 students in 2018 to 1,960 in 2025. The White share of enrollment expanded from 10% to 17% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 24.2:1 in 2018 to 21.7:1 in 2025.

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