Del Rey Woods Elementary

Located at 1281 Plumas Ave., in Seaside, California, Del Rey Woods Elementary is a tight-knit elementary-level community that hosts 390 students (grades K through 6), part of Monterey Peninsula Unified.

Del Rey Woods Elementary is one of 18 schools operated by Monterey Peninsula Unified, a district that caters to 9,308 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Del Rey Woods Elementary shows that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 6% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian, 2% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Monterey County (around 76%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Del Rey Woods Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.1%; this one delivers 23.5%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Monterey County shows median household earnings sit near $97,230, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Del Rey Woods Elementary is one of 153 public schools in Monterey County (combined enrollment of about 73,845 students).

Dual Language Academy of the Monterey Peninsula is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Del Rey Woods Elementary comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 23.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Del Rey Woods Elementary's enrollment has declined 13% since 2018, when it stood at 448 (now 390). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.