Sunnyside Elementary

As a reasonably sized elementary school in Bonita, California, Sunnyside Elementary hosts 434 students from grades K through 6, operated by Chula Vista Elementary.

Within Chula Vista Elementary, which oversees 43 schools and 22,235 students, Sunnyside Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Sunnyside Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 67% of enrollment. Other groups include 13% White, 10% Asian, 7% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 38% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sunnyside Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.6%; this one delivers 56.9%.

In the surrounding community, census data for San Diego County shows median household income runs about $106,268, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Sunnyside Elementary is one.

Zamorano Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sunnyside Elementary. On composite proficiency, Sunnyside Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.7%.

Sunnyside Elementary operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 5%: 456 students in 2018 compared to 434 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 21% to 13%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 21.7:1 today.

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