El Camino High

El Camino High, a roomy four-year high school in Oceanside, California, operated by Oceanside Unified, instructs 2,463 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 194% bigger than the state mean of about 838.

El Camino High is one of 23 schools operated by Oceanside Unified, a district that teaches 14,866 students overall.

On the student-mix side, El Camino High shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 62% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 17% White, 7% multiracial, 6% Asian, 4% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 106 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.3:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against San Diego County (around 54%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, El Camino High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.6%; this one delivers 37.2%.

Zooming out to the county, San Diego County reports that the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 El Camino High is one.

Martin Luther King Jr. Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), El Camino High ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 38.6%.

El Camino High operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. El Camino High's enrollment has contracted 15% since 2018, when it stood at 2,900 (now 2,463). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 56% to 62%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 25.3:1 in 2018 to 23.3:1 today.

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