Kimball

Kimball, a compact K-5 school in National City, California, one of the schools within National Elementary, enrolls 322 students, covering grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 31% smaller than the state mean of about 465.

National Elementary runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 3,964 students. Kimball is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Kimball logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (96%). By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 82% of students at Kimball qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, San Diego County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kimball tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 30.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.5%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (San Diego County) shows that median household income runs about $106,268, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across San Diego County's 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), Kimball is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is National City Middle, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kimball. On composite proficiency, Kimball comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 26.7%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Kimball's enrollment has shrank 25% since 2018, when it stood at 431 (now 322). The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 22.7:1 in 2018 to 24.8:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.