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If you had an hour of school board time for Foothill Oak Elementary, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
556
Elementary
DISTRICT 566 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·VISTA UNIFIED·NCES 064119011400
Foothill Oak Elementary
1370 Oak Dr., Vista, CA 92084 · (760) 631-3458 · San Diego County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL556 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
25.3:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.9:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
498 students
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 116 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 78 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 87 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 89 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 96 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (116) is 21% larger than its 5th grade class (96).
Student demographics
17%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
17.6%
CA avg 49.1% . -3.4pp since 2014
Math
13.9%
CA avg 37.7% . -0.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 6.5% | 11.1% | 23.4% | 59.0% |
| Math | 4.5% | 9.4% | 27.3% | 58.8% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 17.6% | 13.9% |
| 2023-24 | 18.8% | 11.6% |
| 2022-23 | 18.9% | 9.7% |
| 2021-22 | 24.8% | 13.1% |
| 2018-19 | 32.0% | 27.3% |
| 2017-18 | 34.7% | 30.9% |
| 2016-17 | 25.9% | 22.3% |
| 2015-16 | 32.0% | 21.0% |
| 2014-15 | 21.0% | 14.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
15.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
27.1%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Foothill Oak Elementary
Foothill Oak Elementary's state test result (15.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foothill Oak Elementary this school | 556 | 89.6% | 15.5% |
| Lyndon B. Johnson Elementary Indio | 560 | 89.5% | 17.1% |
| Bobier Elementary Vista | 563 | 90.8% | 19.0% |
| Harvest Elementary Kerman | 535 | 89.5% | 33.9% |
| Hubbard Street Elementary Sylmar | 535 | 88.6% | 38.9% |
| Mercey Springs Elementary Los Banos | 608 | 89.3% | 21.3% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Foothill Oak Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In San Diego County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.5% | #4,905 of 5,151 | #383 of 392 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.9% | #4,841 of 5,172 ▲ 99 | #378 of 393 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 17.6% | #4,965 of 5,172 ▼ 145 | #385 of 393 ▼ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.2pp | #924 of 5,116 | #78 of 387 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 556 | #1,798 of 5,915 | #130 of 453 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 25.3:1 | #4,571 of 5,352 | #362 of 418 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 16.6% | #4,614 of 5,354 | #383 of 418 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.6% | #1,150 of 5,625 | #53 of 442 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.7% | #2,196 of 3,837 | #162 of 279 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
556
+22 (+4%) vs 2020
-13% since 2010-11, when it was 637
Student : Teacher
25.3:1
was 26.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 556 | 22 | 25.3:1 | 90% (498) |
| 2023-24 | 457 | 19.5 | 23.4:1 | 95% (432) |
| 2022-23 | 489 | 19.5 | 25.1:1 | 88% (431) |
| 2020-21 | 534 | 20 | 26.7:1 | 96% (515) |
| 2017-18 | 644 | 24 | 26.8:1 | 94% (606) |
| 2015-16 | 706 | 28 | 25.2:1 | 93% (657) |
| 2010-11 | 637 | N/A | N/A | 93% (591) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Foothill Oak Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (644 to 556); teachers down 8% (24 to 22).
About Foothill Oak Elementary
Foothill Oak Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in Vista, California, one of the schools in Vista Unified. The school had 556 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25.
District-wide, Vista Unified has 28 schools and 18,969 students.
Most students at Foothill Oak Elementary are Hispanic: 91% of enrollment. Other students are 4% White and 2% multiracial. That is higher than the 35% Hispanic share among all San Diego County residents. Foothill Oak Elementary has a diversity index of 17%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school reported 22 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25 and a ratio of 25.3:1. For comparison, elementary schools in California average 22.3:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 90%. Across public schools in San Diego County, the average is 54%.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Foothill Oak Elementary is 11.5 points below its prediction. Actual: 15.5%. Predicted: 27.1%.
County data help place the school in context: in San Diego County, median household income is about $106,268, roughly 43% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. The public schools of San Diego County number 766 and enroll about 467,437.
Alta Vista High (Continuation) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 25.9% on proficiency, and Foothill Oak Elementary is below that at 15.5%.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count in 2024-25 was 556, 4% above the 534 of 2020-21. Students per teacher fell from 26.7 in 2020-21 to 25.3 in 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
San Diego County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
3,288,774
Census ACS
Median income
$106,268
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
766
467,437 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Vista Unified
- Rancho Buena Vista HighHigh · 1,949 students
- Vista HighHigh · 1,746 students
- Mission Vista HighHigh · 1,670 students
- Madison MiddleMiddle · 1,158 students
- Roosevelt MiddleMiddle · 866 students
- Vista Magnet Middle School of Technology Science and MathMiddle · 836 students
Other schools in Vista
- Rancho Buena Vista HighHigh · 1,949 students
- Vista HighHigh · 1,746 students
- Guajome Park Academy CharterCombined · 1,355 students
- Vista Magnet Middle School of Technology Science and MathMiddle · 836 students
- Vista Innovation and Design AcademyMiddle · 834 students
- Casita Center for Science/Math/TechnologyElementary · 744 students
Nearby schools
- Alta Vista High (Continuation)0.4 mi · 90
- Vista Visions Academy0.4 mi · 68
- Vista Springs Charter0.7 mi · 251
- Vista High1.1 mi · 1,746
- Vista Adult Transition Center1.1 mi · 107
- Vista Magnet Middle School of Technology Science and Math1.3 mi · 836
Frequently asked questions
About Foothill Oak ElementaryHow many students attend Foothill Oak Elementary?
Foothill Oak Elementary enrolls approximately 556 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Foothill Oak Elementary serve?
Foothill Oak Elementary serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Foothill Oak Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Foothill Oak Elementary is approximately 25.3:1 (22 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Foothill Oak Elementary?
Foothill Oak Elementary reports a student body of 4% White, 91% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Foothill Oak Elementary?
Foothill Oak Elementary is overseen by Vista Unified in San Diego County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.