Vista Academy of Visual and Performing Arts

Located at 600 North Santa Fe Ave., in Vista, California, Vista Academy of Visual and Performing Arts is a large primary school that educates 740 students (grades K through 5), operated by Vista Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 59% larger than the state mean of about 465.

Vista Unified comprises 28 schools with combined enrollment of 18,969 students; Vista Academy of Visual and Performing Arts is among them.

Demographically, Vista Academy of Visual and Performing Arts logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (80%). Other groups include 12% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

On the resource side, On paper, Vista Academy of Visual and Performing Arts has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against San Diego County (around 54%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Vista Academy of Visual and Performing Arts performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.9%, the actual is 29.4%, a residual of -1.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for San Diego County put median household earnings sit near $106,268, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Vista Academy of Visual and Performing Arts is one of 766 public schools in San Diego County (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students).

Nearest neighbor: California Avenue Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Vista Academy of Visual and Performing Arts at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 34.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Vista Academy of Visual and Performing Arts's enrollment has grew 22% since 2018, when it stood at 608 (now 740). Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 87% to 80%.

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