Glen Speck Elementary

Glen Speck Elementary is one of the medium-sized K-5 schools in Paso Robles, California, one of the schools within Paso Robles Joint Unified, with 454 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Glen Speck Elementary is one of 12 schools operated by Paso Robles Joint Unified, a district that teaches 6,902 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Glen Speck Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 22% White, 8% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the resource side, On paper, Glen Speck Elementary has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 27.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, San Luis Obispo County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Glen Speck Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.8%, the actual is 29.4%, a residual of -0.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (San Luis Obispo County) logs that 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%. Glen Speck Elementary is one of 83 public schools in San Luis Obispo County (combined enrollment of about 33,339 students).

Nearest neighbor: Lewis Flamson Junior High, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Glen Speck Elementary. On composite proficiency, Glen Speck Elementary comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 39.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Looking at the recent track record. Glen Speck Elementary's enrollment has contracted 5% since 2018, when it stood at 480 (now 454).

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