Aliso Elementary

Located at 4545 Carpinteria Ave., in Carpinteria, California, Aliso Elementary is a modestly sized elementary school that works with 315 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Carpinteria Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Aliso Elementary sits 32% below that benchmark.

Within Carpinteria Unified, which oversees 6 schools and 1,912 students, Aliso Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Aliso Elementary shows that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 11% White. By comparison, Santa Barbara County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Aliso Elementary shows 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.7:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Santa Barbara County's rate of about 68%.

With demographic context factored in, Aliso Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.6%; this one delivers 42.1%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Santa Barbara County) records that the typical household earns roughly $98,161 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Santa Barbara County's 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,191 students), Aliso Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Carpinteria Family, around 0.7 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Aliso Elementary at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 56.0%.

Aliso Elementary operates from a suburban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Aliso Elementary's enrollment has declined 19% since 2018, when it stood at 388 (now 315). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 today.

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