Las Palmas

Las Palmas is a medium-sized primary school in National City, California, operated by National Elementary. The school serves 458 students in grades K through 6.

Across the 10 schools in National Elementary (3,964 students total), Las Palmas accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Las Palmas shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (82%); the rest reads as 9% Asian, 5% multiracial, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 35% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Las Palmas logs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

After controlling for student poverty, Las Palmas sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.8%; this one delivers 26.1%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for San Diego County indicate 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%. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Las Palmas is one.

Lincoln Acres is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Las Palmas comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.9%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Las Palmas's enrollment has contracted 31% since 2018, when it stood at 662 (now 458).

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