Pacheco Elementary

Pacheco Elementary, an average-sized elementary school in San Luis Obispo, California, one of the schools within San Luis Coastal Unified, instructs 488 students, covering grades K through 6.

San Luis Coastal Unified comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 7,653 students; Pacheco Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Pacheco Elementary reports that 61% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 33% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, San Luis Obispo County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 48% of students at Pacheco Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Pacheco Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.1%, the actual is 56.0%, a residual of +4.9 points.

In the surrounding community, San Luis Obispo County reports that median household earnings sit near $97,446, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across San Luis Obispo County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,339 students), Pacheco Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Bishop's Peak Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pacheco Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pacheco Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 66.6%.

Pacheco Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pacheco Elementary has edged down 11%, going from 551 students in 2018 to 488 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 38% to 33% across the same window.

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