Vista Del Mar

As a cozy intermediate school in San Diego, California, Vista Del Mar educates 541 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within San Ysidro Elementary.

Vista Del Mar is one of 7 schools operated by San Ysidro Elementary, a district that enrolls 4,140 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Vista Del Mar logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 77%; the rest breaks down as 9% Asian, 7% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 35% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 36% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against San Diego County (around 54%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Vista Del Mar is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 58.1%; Vista Del Mar posts 42.7%, -15.5 points below that line.

Around the school, 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 roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Vista Del Mar is one.

Nearest neighbor: Ocean View Hills, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Vista Del Mar comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 28.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 27%: 425 students in 2018 compared to 541 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 13% to 9% across the same window.

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