Bellevue-Santa Fe Charter

Bellevue-Santa Fe Charter is an elementary school of tiny scale in San Luis Obispo, California, part of Bellevue-Santa Fe Charter District, serveing 163 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 65% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Operationally, Bellevue-Santa Fe Charter answers to Bellevue-Santa Fe Charter District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Looking at the student body, Bellevue-Santa Fe Charter logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%). Beyond that, the school reports 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 69% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Bellevue-Santa Fe Charter reports 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than San Luis Obispo County's rate of about 54%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (San Luis Obispo County) shows that median household earnings sit near $97,446, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across San Luis Obispo County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,339 students), Bellevue-Santa Fe Charter is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Shell Beach Elementary, around 3.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Bellevue-Santa Fe Charter.

The campus sits in a low-density setting. As a public charter, Bellevue-Santa Fe Charter runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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