North Terrace Elementary

North Terrace Elementary, a well-populated K-5 school in Oceanside, California, overseen by Oceanside Unified, enrolls 771 students, covering grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 66% bigger than typical.

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

On the student-mix side, North Terrace Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 43%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 35% White, 12% multiracial, 6% Black, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting North Terrace Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, San Diego County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), North Terrace Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.1%, the actual is 46.9%, a residual of +8.8 points.

Around the school, 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%. Across San Diego County's 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), North Terrace Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Laurel Elementary, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts North Terrace Elementary at 1st of 6; the average score across the group is 25.8%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. North Terrace Elementary's enrollment has shrank 7% since 2018, when it stood at 832 (now 771). Over the same period, the White share fell from 45% to 35%.

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