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Olive Grove Charter - Orcutt/Santa Maria
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About Olive Grove Charter - Orcutt/Santa Maria
Olive Grove Charter - Orcutt/Santa Maria operates as a very small combined-grade school in Orcutt, California, one of the schools within Olive Grove Charter - Orcutt/Santa Maria District. Current enrollment sits at 153 students spanning grades K through 12. That puts it 75% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 602 students.
Olive Grove Charter - Orcutt/Santa Maria sits inside Olive Grove Charter - Orcutt/Santa Maria District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Olive Grove Charter - Orcutt/Santa Maria logs that 63% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 29% White, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Olive Grove Charter - Orcutt/Santa Maria reports 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.4:1. The state averages around 18.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 62% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Santa Barbara County put the typical household earns roughly $98,161 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Olive Grove Charter - Orcutt/Santa Maria is one of 129 public schools in Santa Barbara County (combined enrollment of about 66,191 students).
Family Partnership Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Olive Grove Charter - Orcutt/Santa Maria.
The school occupies a residential site. As a public charter, Olive Grove Charter - Orcutt/Santa Maria runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school. As a virtual school, attendance and instruction happen remotely rather than in person.
Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Olive Grove Charter - Orcutt/Santa Maria typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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