Adam (William Laird) Elementary

Adam (William Laird) Elementary is an elementary campus of sizable scale in Santa Maria, California, overseen by Santa Maria-Bonita, hosting 874 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 88% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Santa Maria-Bonita runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 17,408 students. Adam (William Laird) Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Adam (William Laird) Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (98%). That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, Adam (William Laird) Elementary lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 97% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Santa Barbara County's rate of about 68%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Adam (William Laird) Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.8%, the actual is 17.7%, a residual of -4.1 points.

In the area at large, census data for Santa Barbara County shows median household earnings sit near $98,161, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Santa Barbara County's 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,191 students), Adam (William Laird) Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Sanchez (David J.) Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Adam (William Laird) Elementary at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 22.9%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Adam (William Laird) Elementary's enrollment has edged down 11% since 2018, when it stood at 983 (now 874). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 26.0:1 in 2018 to 24.6:1 today.

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