Del Mar Heights Elementary

Set in Del Mar, California, Del Mar Heights Elementary is an intimate elementary school, run under Del Mar Union Elementary. It hosts 293 students across grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Del Mar Heights Elementary sits 37% leaner than that benchmark.

Del Mar Union Elementary comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 3,496 students; Del Mar Heights Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Del Mar Heights Elementary records that White students make up the majority at 59%. The remainder is composed of 14% multiracial, 14% Asian, 12% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 48% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Del Mar Heights Elementary has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 10% of students at Del Mar Heights Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against San Diego County (around 54%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Del Mar Heights Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 73.4%; this one delivers 79.1%.

Zooming out to the county, San Diego County reports that median household income runs about $106,268, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Del Mar Heights Elementary is one.

Del Mar Hills Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Del Mar Heights Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 81.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Del Mar Heights Elementary has contracted 42%, going from 504 students in 2018 to 293 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 69% to 59%. Class-load math has tightened: from 23.1:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 in 2025.

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