Mission Elementary

As an average-sized K-5 school in Oceanside, California, Mission Elementary serves 419 students from grades K through 5, operated by Oceanside Unified.

Oceanside Unified runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 14,866 students. Mission Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Mission Elementary lists that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest looks like 7% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mission Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.3%, the actual is 21.4%, a residual of -3.9 points.

In the broader community, census data for San Diego County shows median household income runs about $106,268, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across San Diego County's 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), Mission Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Oceanside Unified School District Adult Transition Program, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mission Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mission Elementary has ticked down 19%, going from 520 students in 2018 to 419 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 23.0:1 in 2018 to 24.6:1 in 2025.

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