Castle Park Elementary

Castle Park Elementary, a small K-5 school in Chula Vista, California, operated by Chula Vista Elementary, serves 377 students, covering grades K through 6.

Chula Vista Elementary runs 43 schools in total, collectively educating 22,235 students. Castle Park Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Castle Park Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%); the rest looks like 3% Black, 2% White. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Castle Park Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, San Diego County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Castle Park Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.9%, the actual is 37.1%, a residual of +10.2 points.

Around the school, census data for San Diego County shows median household earnings sit near $106,268, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Castle Park Elementary is one of 766 public schools in San Diego County (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students).

Nearest neighbor: Castle Park Middle, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Castle Park Elementary at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 35.6%.

Castle Park Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Castle Park Elementary's enrollment has contracted 4% since 2018, when it stood at 394 (now 377).

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