Valley Vista Elementary

Valley Vista Elementary is one of the middle-of-the-pack K-5 schools in Bonita, California, operated by Chula Vista Elementary, with 513 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Valley Vista Elementary is one of 43 schools operated by Chula Vista Elementary, a district that enrolls 22,235 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Valley Vista Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (83%). The remainder breaks down as 7% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Valley Vista Elementary has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Valley Vista Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.6%, the actual is 35.1%, a residual of -12.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for San Diego County put 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%. Across San Diego County's 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), Valley Vista Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Altus Schools South Bay is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Valley Vista Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 45.8%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 15%: 603 students in 2018 compared to 513 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 77% to 83%.

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