La Honda STEAM Academy

La Honda STEAM Academy is one of the moderately sized K-5 schools in Lompoc, California, one of the schools within Lompoc Unified, with 531 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Lompoc Unified runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 8,896 students. La Honda STEAM Academy is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, La Honda STEAM Academy reports that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school records 10% White, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, La Honda STEAM Academy reports 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), La Honda STEAM Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.5%, the actual is 19.7%, a residual of -9.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Santa Barbara County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $98,161 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Santa Barbara County's 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,191 students), La Honda STEAM Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Olive Grove Charter - Lompoc, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), La Honda STEAM Academy ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 22.2%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 522 students in 2018 compared to 531 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 23.6:1 in 2018 to 25.1:1 in 2025.

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