Clover Flat Elementary

As a small K-5 school in Boulevard, California, Clover Flat Elementary educates 190 students from grades K through 6, run under Mountain Empire Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 59% below the state mean of about 465.

Mountain Empire Unified runs 8 schools in total, collectively educating 1,738 students. Clover Flat Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Clover Flat Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 53%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest is composed of 23% White, 11% Native American, 11% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Clover Flat Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Clover Flat Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 42.8%; actual is 11.4%, a gap of -31.4 points.

In the broader community, census data for San Diego County shows 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%. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Clover Flat Elementary is one.

Campo Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 11.2 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, Clover Flat Elementary comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 25.9%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Clover Flat Elementary has edged up 47%, going from 129 students in 2018 to 190 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 32% to 53% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 25.8:1 in 2018 to 23.8:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.