C L Smith Elementary

C L Smith Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack primary school in San Luis Obispo, California, operated by San Luis Coastal Unified. Current enrollment sits at 528 students spanning grades K through 6.

San Luis Coastal Unified comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 7,653 students; C L Smith Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, C L Smith Elementary shows that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 41% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 69% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against San Luis Obispo County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, C L Smith Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.4%; this one delivers 61.4%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (San Luis Obispo County) records that median household earnings sit near $97,446, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. C L Smith Elementary is one of 83 public schools in San Luis Obispo County (combined enrollment of about 33,339 students).

Nearest neighbor: Laguna Middle, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around C L Smith Elementary. On composite proficiency, C L Smith Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 61.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at C L Smith Elementary has grew 44%, going from 367 students in 2018 to 528 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 40% to 46% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 20.4:1 in 2018 to 22.5:1 today.

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