Rancho Santana

As a moderately sized elementary school in Hollister, California, Rancho Santana serves 678 students from grades K through 8, run under Hollister. Enrollment runs roughly 46% above the state mean of about 465.

Hollister comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 5,908 students; Rancho Santana is among them.

On demographics, Rancho Santana reports that 74% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 15% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 26.6:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Rancho Santana is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 47.6%; Rancho Santana posts 25.8%, -21.8 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for San Benito County shows median household income runs about $114,394, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across San Benito County's 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,633 students), Rancho Santana is one campus in the mix.

Cerra Vista Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rancho Santana. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rancho Santana ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 27.1%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Rancho Santana community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.