Veterans Elementary

Veterans Elementary is one of the large elementary campuss in Chula Vista, California, operated by Chula Vista Elementary, with 832 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. That puts it 79% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Chula Vista Elementary runs 43 schools in total, collectively educating 22,235 students. Veterans Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Veterans Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 20% Asian, 8% multiracial, 8% Black, 7% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 43% of students at Veterans Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of San Diego County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Veterans Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 66.7%.

In the area at large, San Diego County reports that the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), Veterans Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: McMillin (Corky) Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Veterans Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Veterans Elementary at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 62.7%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Veterans Elementary's enrollment has decreased 9% since 2018, when it stood at 911 (now 832). The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 47% to 56% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 in 2025.

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