Ocean Knoll Elementary

Ocean Knoll Elementary is one of the moderately sized elementary schools in Encinitas, California, run under Encinitas Union Elementary, with 479 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Within Encinitas Union Elementary, which oversees 9 schools and 4,298 students, Ocean Knoll Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Ocean Knoll Elementary logs that 49% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 39% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 3% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with San Diego County as a whole.

On the resource side, Ocean Knoll Elementary reports 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Ocean Knoll Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against San Diego County (around 54%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Ocean Knoll Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.5%, the actual is 59.4%, a residual of +1.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for San Diego County shows median household income runs about $106,268, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Ocean Knoll Elementary is one of 766 public schools in San Diego County (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students).

Nearest neighbor: San Dieguito HS Academy, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Ocean Knoll Elementary comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 66.7%.

Ocean Knoll Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 26%: 650 students in 2018 compared to 479 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 54% to 49%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 26.5:1 in 2018 to 25.2:1 today.

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