Olga L. Reed Elementary

Olga L. Reed Elementary is a minimally staffed elementary school in Los Alamos, California, operated by Orcutt Union Elementary. The school enrolls 170 students in grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 63% below the state mean of about 465.

Within Orcutt Union Elementary, which oversees 10 schools and 4,911 students, Olga L. Reed Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Olga L. Reed Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (84%); the rest breaks down as 9% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Santa Barbara County as a whole is about 48% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Olga L. Reed Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 96% of students at Olga L. Reed Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Santa Barbara County's rate of about 68%.

With demographic context factored in, Olga L. Reed Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.4%, the actual is 31.1%, a residual of +8.7 points.

Around the school, Santa Barbara County reports that median household earnings sit near $98,161, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Santa Barbara County runs 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,191 students), of which Olga L. Reed Elementary is one.

Benjamin Foxen Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 8.8 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Olga L. Reed Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 39.1%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Olga L. Reed Elementary's enrollment has edged down 20% since 2018, when it stood at 212 (now 170). Over the same period, the White share declined from 15% to 9%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 26.5:1 in 2018 to 24.1:1 today.

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