Loma Vista Elementary

Located at 757 Sausal Dr., in Salinas, California, Loma Vista Elementary is a medium-sized elementary campus that enrolls 445 students (grades K through 6), one of the schools within Salinas City Elementary.

Across the 15 schools in Salinas City Elementary (8,236 students total), Loma Vista Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Loma Vista Elementary logs that 96% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Monterey County as a whole is about 62% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Loma Vista Elementary lists 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Loma Vista Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 36.0%; actual is 10.9%, a gap of -25.1 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Monterey County put median household income runs about $97,230, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Monterey County runs 153 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,845 students), of which Loma Vista Elementary is one.

John E. Steinbeck Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Loma Vista Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Loma Vista Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 25.3%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 20%: 556 students in 2018 compared to 445 in 2025.

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