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How has Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
398
Elementary
DISTRICT 477 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOMPOC UNIFIED·NCES 062241002685
Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy
3745 Via Lato, Lompoc, CA 93436 · (805) 742-2350 · Santa Barbara County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL398 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 19% of California public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.9:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.5:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
232 students
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 76 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 40 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 66 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 42 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 48 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 58% larger than its 6th grade class (48).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
31.2%
CA avg 49.1% . -4.8pp since 2014
Math
29.4%
CA avg 37.7% . -1.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 13.3% | 17.9% | 25.7% | 43.1% |
| Math | 9.2% | 20.2% | 31.6% | 39.0% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.2% | 29.4% |
| 2023-24 | 34.2% | 23.8% |
| 2022-23 | 25.3% | 17.1% |
| 2021-22 | 29.2% | 22.9% |
| 2018-19 | 47.4% | 33.7% |
| 2017-18 | 45.7% | 32.2% |
| 2016-17 | 41.4% | 28.4% |
| 2015-16 | 41.0% | 29.0% |
| 2014-15 | 36.0% | 31.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
29.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.4%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 45% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy
Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy's state test result (29.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy this school | 398 | 58.3% | 29.4% |
| Juanamaria Elementary Ventura | 397 | 55.9% | 40.6% |
| Coleman Elementary San Rafael | 378 | 60.8% | 45.5% |
| Shirley Rominger Intermediate Winters | 363 | 60.6% | 31.0% |
| Academy of Technology & Leadership at Saticoy Ventura | 461 | 57.5% | 46.8% |
| Bijou Community South Lake Tahoe | 422 | 59.0% | 35.7% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Santa Barbara County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.4% | #3,589 of 5,151 | #42 of 66 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.4% | #3,294 of 5,172 ▲ 469 | #39 of 66 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.2% | #3,856 of 5,172 ▼ 531 | #44 of 66 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.2pp | #1,912 of 5,116 | #17 of 66 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 398 | #3,719 of 5,915 | #41 of 75 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.9:1 | #882 of 5,352 | #26 of 63 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.9% | #2,244 of 5,354 | #24 of 63 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.3% | #3,555 of 5,625 | #41 of 70 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.3% | #2,248 of 3,837 | #23 of 47 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
398
-34 (-8%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 562
Student : Teacher
19.9:1
was 18.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 398 | 20 | 19.9:1 | 58% (232) |
| 2023-24 | 406 | 19 | 21.4:1 | 59% (238) |
| 2022-23 | 440 | 23.7 | 18.5:1 | 58% (256) |
| 2020-21 | 432 | 23 | 18.8:1 | 56% (243) |
| 2017-18 | 459 | 20.8 | 22.0:1 | 58% (265) |
| 2015-16 | 426 | 22 | 19.4:1 | 58% (248) |
| 2010-11 | 433 | N/A | N/A | 53% (231) |
| 2000-01 | 476 | 27 | 17.6:1 | 27% (128) |
| 1990-91 | 562 | 23 | 24.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (459 to 398); teachers down 4% (20.8 to 20).
About Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy
Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy sits in Lompoc, California, and is classified as an elementary school. It enrolled 398 students in kindergarten through 6 for the 2024-25 school year.
Lompoc Unified runs 16 schools with a combined 8,896 students. Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy is one of them.
A majority of students at Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy, 58%, are Hispanic. The remaining shares are 32% White, 6% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Santa Barbara County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. The chance that two students picked at random at Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 56%.
The school employs the equivalent of 20 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 19.9:1. Among elementary schools in California, the typical ratio is 22.3:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 58%. Public schools in Santa Barbara County average 68%.
The allk12 Grade for Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy is C-. Compared with California public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 19% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
After accounting for student poverty, Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy is in the bottom 10% of California schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests of 29.4% is 16.0 points below the 45.4% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
Census estimates describe Santa Barbara County this way: median household income is about $98,161, about 37% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 129 public schools in Santa Barbara County, with a combined enrollment of about 66,191.
The shortest distance from Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy to another public school is about 2.0 miles, to Buena Vista Elementary. The five-mile area around Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy holds at least 8 other public schools. Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy comes in 3rd of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy is coded Suburb: Small, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment down 8%, from 432 to 398. The school's ratio rose from 18.8:1 to 19.9:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
Discussion on this page can cover sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Santa Barbara County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
443,701
Census ACS
Median income
$98,161
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
129
66,191 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lompoc Unified
- Lompoc HighHigh · 1,593 students
- Cabrillo HighHigh · 1,060 students
- Arthur Hapgood ElementaryElementary · 768 students
- Lompoc Valley MiddleMiddle · 744 students
- Miguelito ElementaryElementary · 634 students
- Vandenberg MiddleMiddle · 565 students
Other schools in Lompoc
- Lompoc HighHigh · 1,593 students
- Cabrillo HighHigh · 1,060 students
- Arthur Hapgood ElementaryElementary · 768 students
- Lompoc Valley MiddleMiddle · 744 students
- Miguelito ElementaryElementary · 634 students
- La Canada ElementaryElementary · 541 students
Nearby schools
- Buena Vista Elementary2.0 mi · 498
- Maple High2.1 mi · 135
- Cabrillo High2.6 mi · 1,060
- La Honda STEAM Academy2.8 mi · 531
- Leonora Fillmore Elementary3.2 mi · 469
- Olive Grove Charter - Lompoc3.4 mi · 125
Frequently asked questions
About Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts AcademyHow many students attend Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy?
Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy enrolls approximately 398 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy serve?
Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy serves grades KG-06.
How many students per teacher at Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy?
Approximately 19.9:1 students per teacher at Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy?
At Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy, the student body is approximately 32% White, 58% Hispanic, 2% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy?
Los Berros Visual and Performing Arts Academy is overseen by Lompoc Unified in Santa Barbara County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.