Public school / Other
Surfside Academy
Oceanside, California
- NCES ID
- 062825014502
- District
- Oceanside Unified
- School type
- Alternative
- Title I
- Not designated
Surfside Academy is a public other school in Oceanside, California, run by Oceanside Unified. It enrols 315 students — the 63520th largest of 10,418 public schools in California.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
315
Teachers
10.0
Students per teacher
31.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
73.7%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Oceanside Unified
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1El Camino High2,637 students
- 2Oceanside High1,907 students
- 3Martin Luther King Jr. Middle1,182 students
- 4North Terrace Elementary766 students
- 5Ivey Ranch Elementary725 students
- 6Lincoln Middle699 students
- 7Cesar Chavez Middle670 students
- 8Reynolds Elementary564 students
- Enrollment−33.5%
- Teachers−52.4%
- Students per teacher+42.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+8.5%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory