La Mirada Elementary

La Mirada Elementary operates as a close-knit primary school in San Ysidro, California, operated by San Ysidro Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 382 students spanning grades K through 6.

Across the 7 schools in San Ysidro Elementary (4,140 students total), La Mirada Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, La Mirada Elementary logs that nearly all students (95%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 2% multiracial. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, La Mirada Elementary records 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting La Mirada Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 63% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, La Mirada Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 42.2%; actual is 24.8%, a gap of -17.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for San Diego County shows median household earnings sit near $106,268, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which La Mirada Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Smythe Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), La Mirada Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 25.9%.

La Mirada Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 10%: 424 students in 2018 compared to 382 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.