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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Harborside Elementary administration to hear?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
524
Elementary
DISTRICT 517 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHULA VISTA ELEMENTARY·NCES 060861000861
Harborside Elementary
681 Naples St., Chula Vista, CA 91911 · (619) 422-8369 · San Diego County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL524 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 18% of California public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
21.8:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.8:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
457 students
DISTRICT 56% · 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 | 76 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 64 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 83 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 72 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 71 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 84 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 10% smaller than its 6th grade class (84).
Student demographics
14%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
28.8%
CA avg 49.1% . -9.2pp since 2014
Math
15.3%
CA avg 37.7% . -13.7pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 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 9 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 14 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 12.5% | 16.3% | 21.5% | 49.6% |
| Math | 6.1% | 9.3% | 29.7% | 55.0% |
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 | 28.8% | 15.3% |
| 2023-24 | 30.9% | 16.4% |
| 2022-23 | 24.2% | 14.2% |
| 2021-22 | 25.8% | 14.2% |
| 2018-19 | 41.5% | 27.8% |
| 2017-18 | 38.7% | 25.7% |
| 2016-17 | 43.2% | 29.7% |
| 2015-16 | 43.0% | 26.0% |
| 2014-15 | 38.0% | 29.0% |
% 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
22.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.4%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 28% 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 Harborside Elementary
Harborside Elementary's state test result (22.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harborside Elementary this school | 524 | 87.2% | 22.7% |
| Paramount Elementary Azusa | 513 | 88.3% | 33.5% |
| Roseland Creek Elementary Santa Rosa | 534 | 87.5% | 24.9% |
| Hubbard Street Elementary Sylmar | 535 | 88.6% | 38.9% |
| Arthur E. Mills Intermediate Firebaugh | 511 | 86.7% | 28.0% |
| Hazel M. Bailey Primary Firebaugh | 519 | 87.7% | N/A |
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 Harborside Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In San Diego County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.7% | #4,311 of 5,151 | #346 of 392 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.3% | #4,718 of 5,172 ▼ 165 | #370 of 393 ▼ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.8% | #4,092 of 5,172 ▼ 400 | #333 of 393 ▼ 22 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.1pp | #2,599 of 5,116 | #177 of 387 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 524 | #2,153 of 5,915 | #162 of 453 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.8:1 | #2,064 of 5,352 | #108 of 418 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 13.9% | #4,764 of 5,354 | #393 of 418 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.2% | #1,444 of 5,625 | #65 of 442 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.0% | #823 of 3,837 | #50 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
524
-104 (-17%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 700
Student : Teacher
21.8:1
was 21.7:1
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 | 524 | 24 | 21.8:1 | 87% (457) |
| 2023-24 | 614 | 30 | 20.5:1 | 82% (501) |
| 2022-23 | 592 | 29 | 20.4:1 | 83% (491) |
| 2020-21 | 628 | 29 | 21.7:1 | 86% (542) |
| 2017-18 | 708 | 31 | 22.8:1 | 87% (616) |
| 2015-16 | 685 | 32 | 21.4:1 | 85% (579) |
| 2010-11 | 668 | N/A | N/A | 76% (505) |
| 2000-01 | 731 | 35 | 20.9:1 | 79% (579) |
| 1990-91 | 700 | 27 | 25.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Harborside Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (708 to 524); teachers down 23% (31 to 24).
About Harborside Elementary
Families in Chula Vista, California, are served by Harborside Elementary, a medium-sized elementary school. It enrolled 524 students in kindergarten through 6 for the 2024-25 school year.
Chula Vista Elementary runs 43 schools with a combined 22,235 students. Harborside Elementary is one of them.
Most students at Harborside Elementary are Hispanic: 93% of enrollment. Smaller groups are 3% White. For comparison, the population of San Diego County is roughly 35% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at Harborside Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 14%.
Teachers at the school number 24 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 21.8:1. Elementary schools in California have a similar average ratio of 22.3:1. Roughly 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in San Diego County report 54%.
Harborside Elementary is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 18% of California public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Compared with California schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Harborside Elementary's results are 5.7 points below predicted: 22.7% against 28.4%.
Across 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.
The next-closest public school is Palomar High, about 0.8 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Harborside Elementary. In a group of 5 nearby schools with scores, Harborside Elementary ranks 5th on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Large, or inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Harborside Elementary went from 628 students to 524.
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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 Chula Vista Elementary
- Wolf Canyon ElementaryElementary · 954 students
- Camarena (Enrique S.) ElementaryElementary · 889 students
- Hedenkamp (Anne and William) ElementaryElementary · 855 students
- Salt Creek ElementaryElementary · 835 students
- Muraoka (Saburo) ElementaryElementary · 832 students
- Veterans ElementaryElementary · 832 students
Other schools in Chula Vista
- Eastlake HighHigh · 2,557 students
- Otay Ranch Senior HighHigh · 2,440 students
- Olympian HighHigh · 2,289 students
- Bonita Vista Senior HighHigh · 1,960 students
- Chula Vista Senior HighHigh · 1,864 students
- Hilltop Senior HighHigh · 1,771 students
Nearby schools
- Palomar High0.8 mi · 269
- Chula Vista Learning Community Charter0.9 mi · 1,397
- Lauderbach (J. Calvin) Elementary1.0 mi · 763
- Rice (Lilian J.) Elementary1.0 mi · 613
- Chula Vista Senior High1.0 mi · 1,864
- Montgomery (John J.) Elementary1.3 mi · 338
Frequently asked questions
About Harborside ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Harborside Elementary?
Harborside Elementary enrolls approximately 524 students in grades KG-06.
Is Harborside Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Harborside Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Harborside Elementary have?
Harborside Elementary employs 24 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Harborside Elementary?
Student demographics at Harborside Elementary are roughly 3% White, 93% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Harborside Elementary in?
Harborside Elementary is part of Chula Vista Elementary.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.