Casa de Oro Elementary

Casa de Oro Elementary is a primary school of compact scale in Spring Valley, California, one of the schools within La Mesa-Spring Valley, caters to 320 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 31% leaner than the state mean of about 465.

La Mesa-Spring Valley comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 10,491 students; Casa de Oro Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Casa de Oro Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment; the rest consists of 16% White, 9% multiracial, 8% Black, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Casa de Oro Elementary has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, San Diego County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Casa de Oro Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.6%; this one delivers 28.4%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for San Diego County put the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across San Diego County's 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), Casa de Oro Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: College Preparatory Middle, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Casa de Oro Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 37.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 14%: 370 students in 2018 compared to 320 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 55% to 64% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 26.4:1 in 2018 to 24.6:1 today.

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