Peabody Charter

Peabody Charter is an elementary-level community of heavily attended scale in Santa Barbara, California, part of Peabody Charter District, educateing 780 students in grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 68% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Peabody Charter sits inside Peabody Charter District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Demographically, Peabody Charter lists that the most-represented group is White (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 45% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. Compared to Santa Barbara County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.3:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Santa Barbara County's rate of about 68%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Santa Barbara County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $98,161 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Santa Barbara County's 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,191 students), Peabody Charter is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Adams Elementary, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area. As a public charter, Peabody Charter runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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