T.H.E Leadership Academy

T.H.E Leadership Academy operates as a reasonably sized primary school in Oceanside, California, overseen by Vista Unified. Current enrollment sits at 584 students spanning grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 26% larger than typical.

Across the 28 schools in Vista Unified (18,969 students total), T.H.E Leadership Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, T.H.E Leadership Academy logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 74%. The remainder breaks down as 14% White, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

On the resource side, On paper, T.H.E Leadership Academy has 25 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 T.H.E Leadership Academy higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

After controlling for student poverty, T.H.E Leadership Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.6%, the actual is 43.5%, a residual of +6.8 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for San Diego County indicate the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. T.H.E Leadership Academy is one of 766 public schools in San Diego County (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students).

The closest other public school is SIATech, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around T.H.E Leadership Academy. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts T.H.E Leadership Academy at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 37.1%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 14%: 678 students in 2018 compared to 584 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 69% to 74%.

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