Mountain View

As a compact primary school in San Diego, California, Mountain View works with 195 students from grades K through 8, overseen by San Diego Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 58% below typical.

San Diego Unified comprises 174 schools with combined enrollment of 94,828 students; Mountain View is among them.

On the student-mix side, Mountain View logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (88%). Other groups include 8% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Mountain View logs 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mountain View sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.6%; this one delivers 28.0%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for San Diego County put median household income runs about $106,268, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Mountain View is one.

Nearest neighbor: Ralph Waldo Emerson Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mountain View ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 20.3%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

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