Harborside Elementary

Harborside Elementary operates as an average-sized primary school in Chula Vista, California, one of the schools within Chula Vista Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 524 students spanning grades K through 6.

Across the 43 schools in Chula Vista Elementary (22,235 students total), Harborside Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Harborside Elementary lists that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 35% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Harborside Elementary reports 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, San Diego County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Harborside Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.5%, the actual is 23.4%, a residual of -4.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for San Diego County indicate the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Harborside Elementary is one of 766 public schools in San Diego County (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students).

Palomar High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harborside Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Harborside Elementary at 5th of 5; the average score across the group is 29.9%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Harborside Elementary's enrollment has fell 26% since 2018, when it stood at 708 (now 524). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 21.8:1 today.

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