Monte Vista Elementary

Monte Vista Elementary is a small K-5 school in Santa Barbara, California, overseen by Hope Elementary. The school instructs 267 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 43% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Hope Elementary runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,096 students. Monte Vista Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Monte Vista Elementary reports that White students make up the majority at 57%; the rest looks like 34% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

In terms of school funding signals, Monte Vista Elementary logs 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Santa Barbara County runs at roughly 68%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Monte Vista Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.1%, the actual is 70.3%, a residual of +6.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Santa Barbara County indicate median household earnings sit near $98,161, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Monte Vista Elementary is one of 129 public schools in Santa Barbara County (combined enrollment of about 66,191 students).

The closest other public school is La Colina Junior High, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Monte Vista Elementary comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 60.2%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Monte Vista Elementary's enrollment has fell 13% since 2018, when it stood at 308 (now 267). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 25.7:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Monte Vista Elementary typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.