Surfside Academy

Surfside Academy is a micro-enrollment unified-grade school in Oceanside, California, operated by Oceanside Unified. The school instructs 234 students in grades K through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 602 students each, so Surfside Academy sits 61% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 23 schools in Oceanside Unified (14,866 students total), Surfside Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Surfside Academy records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 55%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 28% White, 6% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, San Diego County as a whole is about 35% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 37.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.6:1, putting Surfside Academy higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (San Diego County) logs that median household income runs about $106,268, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Surfside Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Surfside High (Continuation), around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting. Instruction is delivered virtually rather than at a physical campus, and enrollment crosses district lines.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Surfside Academy typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.