Ocean Air

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in San Diego, California, Ocean Air works with 450 students from grades K through 6, run under Del Mar Union Elementary.

Within Del Mar Union Elementary, which oversees 9 schools and 3,496 students, Ocean Air is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Ocean Air logs that 50% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 30% White, 11% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 12% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Ocean Air shows 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.4:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 4% 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 lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Ocean Air sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 77.3%; this one delivers 89.9%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for San Diego County indicate the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Ocean Air is one of 766 public schools in San Diego County (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students).

Nearest neighbor: Sage Canyon, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ocean Air. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ocean Air at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 81.6%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ocean Air has decreased 35%, going from 693 students in 2018 to 450 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 45% to 30% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.0:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 today.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.