Foothill Oak Elementary

Foothill Oak Elementary operates as an average-sized primary school in Vista, California, one of the schools within Vista Unified. Current enrollment sits at 556 students spanning grades K through 5.

Across the 28 schools in Vista Unified (18,969 students total), Foothill Oak Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Foothill Oak Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%); the rest looks like 4% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Foothill Oak Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.1%, the actual is 15.2%, a residual of -10.9 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for San Diego County indicate median household income runs about $106,268, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across San Diego County's 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), Foothill Oak Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Alta Vista High (Continuation), around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Foothill Oak Elementary at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 26.7%.

Foothill Oak Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Foothill Oak Elementary has fell 14%, going from 644 students in 2018 to 556 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 26.8:1 in 2018 to 25.3:1 today.

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