Morro Bay High

Located at 235 Atascadero Rd., in Morro Bay, California, Morro Bay High is a mid-sized 9-12 campus that serves 751 students (grades 9 through 12), run under San Luis Coastal Unified.

Morro Bay High is one of 16 schools operated by San Luis Coastal Unified, a district that works with 7,653 students overall.

Demographically, Morro Bay High records that White students make up the majority at 57%; the rest looks like 32% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.8:1. The state averages about 18.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 51% of students at Morro Bay High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Morro Bay High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.0%, the actual is 56.2%, a residual of +7.2 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (San Luis Obispo County) shows that median household earnings sit near $97,446, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Morro Bay High is one of 83 public schools in San Luis Obispo County (combined enrollment of about 33,339 students).

The closest other public school is Del Mar Elementary, roughly 1.0 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Morro Bay High comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 50.5%.

Morro Bay High operates from a town-center location.

Over the past 7-year window. Morro Bay High's enrollment has ticked down 9% since 2018, when it stood at 821 (now 751). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 24% to 32%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 in 2025.

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