Nipomo High

Located at 525 North Thompson Rd., in Nipomo, California, Nipomo High is a medium-sized senior high that caters to 819 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by Lucia Mar Unified.

Lucia Mar Unified runs 19 schools in total, collectively educating 9,590 students. Nipomo High is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Nipomo High lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 66%; the rest reads as 27% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, San Luis Obispo County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Nipomo High higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 70% of students at Nipomo High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of San Luis Obispo County's rate of about 54%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Nipomo High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 37.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.6%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for San Luis Obispo County indicate median household income runs about $97,446, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across San Luis Obispo County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,339 students), Nipomo High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Central Coast New Tech High, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Nipomo High. On composite proficiency, Nipomo High comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 35.3%.

Nipomo High operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Nipomo High has contracted 11%, going from 920 students in 2018 to 819 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 33% to 27% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 in 2025.

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