Santa Barbara Charter

Santa Barbara Charter is an elementary school of compact scale in Goleta, California, one of the schools within Santa Barbara Unified, works with 269 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Santa Barbara Charter sits 42% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Santa Barbara Unified, which oversees 20 schools and 12,247 students, Santa Barbara Charter is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Santa Barbara Charter reports that White students make up the majority at 58%. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 48% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Santa Barbara Charter lists 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 25% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Santa Barbara County (around 68%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Santa Barbara Charter falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 64.9%; this one comes in at 44.3%, -20.6 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Santa Barbara County indicate median household income runs about $98,161, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Santa Barbara Charter is one of 129 public schools in Santa Barbara County (combined enrollment of about 66,191 students).

Nearest neighbor: Goleta Valley Junior High, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Santa Barbara Charter ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 58.0%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site. As a public charter, Santa Barbara Charter runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Santa Barbara Charter's enrollment has shrank 6% since 2018, when it stood at 287 (now 269). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 64% to 58%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 22.3:1 today.

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