Solana Pacific Elementary

As a cozy intermediate school in San Diego, California, Solana Pacific Elementary serves 375 students from grades 4 through 6, run under Solana Beach Elementary. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Solana Pacific Elementary sits 43% leaner than that benchmark.

Solana Pacific Elementary is one of 7 schools operated by Solana Beach Elementary, a district that teaches 2,619 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Solana Pacific Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Asian (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 36% White, 14% multiracial, 8% 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, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 14% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Solana Pacific Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 71.1%; actual is 86.4%, +15.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, census data for San Diego County shows the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across San Diego County's 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), Solana Pacific Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Carmel Valley Middle, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Solana Pacific Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 79.1%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 27%: 512 students in 2018 compared to 375 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 45% to 36% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 25.0:1 in 2018 to 23.4:1 today.

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