Ocean View Hills

Ocean View Hills is a high-enrollment elementary school in San Diego, California, overseen by San Ysidro Elementary. The school educates 1,020 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 119% above the state mean of about 465.

San Ysidro Elementary comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 4,140 students; Ocean View Hills is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ocean View Hills shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment. Other groups include 10% Asian, 8% multiracial, 8% Black, 3% White. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Ocean View Hills has 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.2:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 30% of students at Ocean View Hills qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, San Diego County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Ocean View Hills sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.6%; this one delivers 51.0%.

In the area at large, San Diego County reports that 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 View Hills is one of 766 public schools in San Diego County (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students).

Vista Del Mar is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ocean View Hills comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 27.2%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 1,009 students in 2018 compared to 1,020 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.7:1 in 2018 to 22.2:1 today.

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