Cleveland Elementary

Cleveland Elementary is a cozy elementary-level community in Santa Barbara, California, overseen by Santa Barbara Unified. The school serves 254 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 45% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Santa Barbara Unified, which oversees 20 schools and 12,247 students, Cleveland Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Cleveland Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (91%); the rest reads as 4% multiracial, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Cleveland Elementary records 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Santa Barbara County runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Cleveland Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.4%; this one delivers 30.5%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Santa Barbara County put median household income runs about $98,161, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Santa Barbara County's 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,191 students), Cleveland Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Franklin Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cleveland Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 52.1%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Cleveland Elementary's enrollment has decreased 28% since 2018, when it stood at 353 (now 254). The Hispanic share of enrollment decreased from 97% to 91% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 23.5:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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