Bill Libbon Elementary

Set in Santa Maria, California, Bill Libbon Elementary is a substantial elementary campus, one of the schools within Santa Maria-Bonita. It works with 834 students across grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 79% above typical.

Santa Maria-Bonita runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 17,408 students. Bill Libbon Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Bill Libbon Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (88%). Beyond that, the school records 6% White, 3% Asian. By comparison, Santa Barbara County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.5:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Santa Barbara County's rate of about 68%.

With demographic context factored in, Bill Libbon Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.1%; this one delivers 23.5%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Santa Barbara County shows median household income runs about $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%. In all, Santa Barbara County runs 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,191 students), of which Bill Libbon Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Battles (Washington) Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Bill Libbon Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 21.4%.

Bill Libbon Elementary operates from a city-core location.

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