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If you could change one rule at Mary Buren Elementary, what would it be?
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Enrollment
738
Elementary
DISTRICT 662 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GUADALUPE UNION ELEMENTARY·NCES 061626002029
Mary Buren Elementary
1050 Peralta St., Guadalupe, CA 93434 · (805) 343-2411 · Santa Barbara County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL738 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 10% of California public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-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
19.0:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.6:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
665 students
DISTRICT 89% · STATE 65%
Community
6
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 | 227 | 31% |
| Grade 1 | 122 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 138 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 110 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 139 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 1 | 0% |
| Grade 6 | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
9%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 7% · 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
20.2%
CA avg 49.1% . +12.2pp since 2014
Math
14.8%
CA avg 37.7% . +6.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 12 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 6.5% | 13.8% | 23.5% | 56.3% |
| Math | 2.8% | 12.0% | 31.2% | 54.0% |
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 | 20.2% | 14.8% |
| 2023-24 | 17.8% | 15.1% |
| 2022-23 | 19.0% | 16.2% |
| 2021-22 | 20.1% | 9.8% |
| 2020-21 | 13.3% | 10.0% |
| 2018-19 | 25.8% | 19.4% |
| 2017-18 | 25.1% | 19.0% |
| 2016-17 | 13.0% | 10.8% |
| 2015-16 | 16.0% | 6.0% |
| 2014-15 | 8.0% | 8.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
16.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.7%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Mary Buren Elementary
Mary Buren Elementary's state test result (16.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Buren Elementary this school | 738 | 90.1% | 16.9% |
| Liberty Charter Madera | 704 | 91.1% | N/A |
| Washington Elementary Lindsay | 730 | 91.5% | 43.5% |
| Andrew Jackson Elementary Indio | 750 | 88.8% | 18.7% |
| KIPP Excelencia Community Preparatory Redwood City | 711 | 91.0% | N/A |
| Phil D. Swing Elementary Brawley | 725 | 87.9% | 30.2% |
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 Mary Buren Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Santa Barbara County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.9% | #4,820 of 5,151 | #61 of 66 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 14.8% | #4,762 of 5,172 ▼ 85 | #57 of 66 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 20.2% | #4,826 of 5,172 ▲ 57 | #60 of 66 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.5pp | #2,469 of 5,116 | #25 of 66 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 738 | #587 of 5,915 | #16 of 75 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.0:1 | #523 of 5,352 | #18 of 63 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 9.4% | #4,965 of 5,354 | #52 of 63 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.1% | #1,098 of 5,625 | #16 of 70 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.4% | #2,108 of 3,837 | #17 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
738
+16 (+2%) vs 2020
-2% since 1990-91, when it was 750
Student : Teacher
19.0:1
was 22.6:1
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 | 738 | 38.9 | 19.0:1 | 90% (665) |
| 2023-24 | 727 | 35.5 | 20.5:1 | 91% (659) |
| 2022-23 | 715 | 35 | 20.4:1 | 88% (629) |
| 2020-21 | 722 | 32 | 22.6:1 | 85% (617) |
| 2017-18 | 862 | 37 | 23.3:1 | 81% (696) |
| 2015-16 | 858 | 37 | 23.2:1 | 88% (751) |
| 2010-11 | 789 | N/A | N/A | 89% (703) |
| 2000-01 | 780 | 40 | 19.5:1 | 82% (642) |
| 1990-91 | 750 | 27 | 27.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mary Buren Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (862 to 738); teachers up 5% (37 to 38.9).
About Mary Buren Elementary
Mary Buren Elementary is a large elementary school in Guadalupe, California. The school counted 738 students in 2024-25, covering kindergarten through 4. It has 59% more students than the average for elementary schools in California (about 465).
Guadalupe Union Elementary enrolls 1,323 students, and its 2 schools include Mary Buren Elementary.
Of every 100 students at Mary Buren Elementary, about 95 are Hispanic. The remaining students are 3% White. Census figures show Santa Barbara County is about 48% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 9, compared with 70 nationally.
Mary Buren Elementary has 38.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 19.0:1. Elementary schools in California average 22.3:1, 3.3 more students per teacher than here. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 90% at Mary Buren Elementary. That rate is above the 68% average among public schools in Santa Barbara County.
On the allk12 Grade, Mary Buren Elementary lands at D, ahead of 10% of California public elementary schools.
Mary Buren Elementary posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 16.9%, compared with a predicted 26.7%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of California schools on BeatsExpectations.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Santa Barbara County show that the median household earns about $98,161 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Santa Barbara County has 129 public schools with about 66,191 students, including Mary Buren Elementary.
Of the public schools around it, Mary Buren Elementary is closest to Kermit McKenzie Intermediate, about 1.1 miles away. Mary Buren Elementary has 3 other public schools within five miles. Mary Buren Elementary's average proficiency of 16.9% compares with 27.1% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The NCES locale for Mary Buren Elementary is Town: Fringe, which covers schools in a town close to an urbanized area.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 722 in 2020-21, 738 in 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 19.0 students per teacher, compared with 22.6 in 2020-21.
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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 Guadalupe Union Elementary
- Kermit McKenzie IntermediateMiddle · 585 students
- Guadalupe Junior HighElementary
- Guadalupe PreschoolElementary
Other schools in Guadalupe
- Kermit McKenzie IntermediateMiddle · 585 students
- Guadalupe Junior HighElementary
- Guadalupe PreschoolElementary
Nearby schools
- Kermit McKenzie Intermediate1.1 mi · 585
- Bonita Elementary3.4 mi · 535
- Lange (Dorothea) Elementary4.3 mi · 577
- Dana Elementary5.6 mi · 612
- Oakley (Calvin C.) Elementary6.5 mi · 849
- Pacific View Academy6.7 mi · 114
Frequently asked questions
About Mary Buren ElementaryHow many students attend Mary Buren Elementary?
Mary Buren Elementary enrolls approximately 738 students in grades KG-04.
What grades does Mary Buren Elementary serve?
Mary Buren Elementary serves grades KG-04.
How many students per teacher at Mary Buren Elementary?
Approximately 19.0:1 students per teacher at Mary Buren Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Mary Buren Elementary?
Student demographics at Mary Buren Elementary are roughly 3% White, 95% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Mary Buren Elementary public or private?
Mary Buren Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Guadalupe Union Elementary.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.