JCS - Mountain Oaks

JCS - Mountain Oaks is an elementary-level community of modestly sized scale in Encinitas, California, overseen by JCS - Mountain Oaks District, works with 255 students in grades K through 8. That puts it 45% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

JCS - Mountain Oaks sits inside JCS - Mountain Oaks District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, JCS - Mountain Oaks logs that 65% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 13% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 9% Asian. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 48% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, JCS - Mountain Oaks shows 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 26% of students at JCS - Mountain Oaks qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (San Diego County) shows 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 JCS - Mountain Oaks is one.

Nearest neighbor: Sunset High (Continuation), around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a high-density site. As a public charter, JCS - Mountain Oaks runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.