Arroyo Grande High

Arroyo Grande High operates as a substantial secondary school in Arroyo Grande, California, one of the schools within Lucia Mar Unified. Current enrollment sits at 2,012 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 140% larger than the state mean of about 838.

Across the 19 schools in Lucia Mar Unified (9,590 students total), Arroyo Grande High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Arroyo Grande High lists that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 42% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, San Luis Obispo County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Arroyo Grande High logs 96 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Arroyo Grande High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.4%; this one delivers 47.9%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (San Luis Obispo County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $97,446 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, San Luis Obispo County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,339 students), of which Arroyo Grande High is one.

Harloe Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Arroyo Grande High comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 44.8%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Arroyo Grande High's enrollment has decreased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 2,071 (now 2,012). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 57% to 48% over that span.

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