Sea View Elementary

Sea View Elementary, a moderately sized K-5 school in Salton City, California, part of Coachella Valley Unified, serves 682 students, covering grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 47% larger than the state mean of about 465.

Sea View Elementary is one of 21 schools operated by Coachella Valley Unified, a district that caters to 15,817 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Sea View Elementary logs that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 4% White.

On the resource side, On paper, Sea View Elementary has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Sea View Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Imperial County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sea View Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.0%; this one delivers 16.2%.

Around the school, Imperial County reports that median household income runs about $57,681, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 17%. Sea View Elementary is one of 76 public schools in Imperial County (combined enrollment of about 36,513 students).

Nearest neighbor: West Shores High, around 0.5 miles off. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sea View Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 17.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 17%: 581 students in 2018 compared to 682 in 2025.

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