Cambria Grammar

Set in Cambria, California, Cambria Grammar is an intimate elementary campus, overseen by Coast Unified. It hosts 202 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 57% smaller than typical.

Coast Unified runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 478 students. Cambria Grammar is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Cambria Grammar logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 78% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 19% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Cambria Grammar has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 85% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above San Luis Obispo County's rate of about 54%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Cambria Grammar performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.8%, the actual is 33.1%, a residual of +4.3 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for San Luis Obispo County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,446 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across San Luis Obispo County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,339 students), Cambria Grammar is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Santa Lucia Middle, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Cambria Grammar. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cambria Grammar at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 45.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Looking at the recent track record. Cambria Grammar's enrollment has declined 22% since 2018, when it stood at 259 (now 202). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.

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