Palmquist Elementary

Palmquist Elementary is one of the mid-sized primary schools in Oceanside, California, operated by Oceanside Unified, with 512 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Oceanside Unified comprises 23 schools with combined enrollment of 14,866 students; Palmquist Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Palmquist Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 43% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Palmquist Elementary reports 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 26.4:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Palmquist Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.9%; this one delivers 42.0%.

In the area at large, San Diego County reports that the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Palmquist Elementary is one of 766 public schools in San Diego County (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students).

Nearest neighbor: Lincoln Middle, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Palmquist Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 35.8%.

Palmquist Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Palmquist Elementary's enrollment has contracted 18% since 2018, when it stood at 628 (now 512). The White share of enrollment climbed from 39% to 45% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 26.4:1 today.

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