Christa McAuliffe Elementary

Christa McAuliffe Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Oceanside, California, part of Oceanside Unified. Current enrollment sits at 461 students spanning grades K through 5.

Oceanside Unified runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 14,866 students. Christa McAuliffe Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Christa McAuliffe Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 35% White, 10% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.0:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 59% of students at Christa McAuliffe Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Christa McAuliffe Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 44.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 42.5%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for San Diego County put median household income runs about $106,268, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Christa McAuliffe Elementary is one.

Pacific View Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Christa McAuliffe Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 51.8%.

Christa McAuliffe Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Christa McAuliffe Elementary has declined 21%, going from 587 students in 2018 to 461 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked down from 55% to 49% over that span.

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