Enrollment
221
Elementary
DISTRICT 355 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SANTA BARBARA UNIFIED·NCES 060141408347
Santa Barbara Community Academy
850 Portesuello Ave., Santa Barbara, CA 93101 · (805) 687-2081 · Santa Barbara County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL221 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 28% of California public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
13 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.2:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
182 students
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 40 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 17 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 23 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 32 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 28 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 23% |
| Grade 6 | 31 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (40) is 29% larger than its 6th grade class (31).
Student demographics
10%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
32.6%
CA avg 49.1% . +8.6pp since 2014
Math
25.2%
CA avg 37.7% . +6.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 6 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 10.6% | 22.0% | 25.8% | 41.7% |
| Math | 5.9% | 19.3% | 35.6% | 39.3% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 32.6% | 25.2% |
| 2023-24 | 33.3% | 23.1% |
| 2022-23 | 28.3% | 17.3% |
| 2021-22 | 32.5% | 23.7% |
| 2018-19 | 40.4% | 31.6% |
| 2017-18 | 39.0% | 23.6% |
| 2016-17 | 33.1% | 29.9% |
| 2015-16 | 27.0% | 23.0% |
| 2014-15 | 24.0% | 19.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
28.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.3%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Santa Barbara Community Academy
Santa Barbara Community Academy's state test result (28.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Barbara Community Academy this school | 221 | 82.4% | 28.8% |
| Chualar Elementary Chualar | 234 | 83.8% | 36.7% |
| Voices College-Bound Language Academy at Mt. Pleasant San Jose | 235 | 82.6% | N/A |
| Romero Elementary Santa Nella | 225 | 82.7% | 31.6% |
| Glenwood Elementary Thousand Oaks | 218 | 79.4% | 27.4% |
| Waukena Joint Union Elementary Tulare | 220 | 84.1% | 31.0% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Santa Barbara Community Academy ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Santa Barbara County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.8% | #3,655 of 5,151 | #43 of 66 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.2% | #3,747 of 5,172 ▲ 84 | #43 of 66 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 32.6% | #3,719 of 5,172 ▼ 314 | #42 of 66 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.8pp | #3,064 of 5,116 | #35 of 66 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 221 | #5,258 of 5,915 | #62 of 75 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.6:1 | #210 of 5,352 | #12 of 63 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 9.6% | #4,954 of 5,354 | #51 of 63 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.4% | #1,927 of 5,625 | #24 of 70 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.1% | #1,633 of 3,837 | #12 of 47 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
221
-25 (-10%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
17.6:1
was 20.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 221 | 12.6 | 17.6:1 | 82% (182) |
| 2023-24 | 202 | 12.2 | 16.6:1 | 86% (173) |
| 2022-23 | 197 | 12.3 | 16.0:1 | 81% (159) |
| 2020-21 | 246 | 12 | 20.5:1 | 69% (169) |
| 2017-18 | 270 | 12 | 22.5:1 | 79% (213) |
| 2015-16 | 294 | 12 | 24.5:1 | 47% (139) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Santa Barbara Community Academy.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (270 to 221); teachers up 5% (12 to 12.6).
About Santa Barbara Community Academy
Santa Barbara Community Academy is a low-enrollment elementary school located in Santa Barbara, California. It has an enrollment of 221 students in kindergarten through 6. Elementary schools in California average about 465 students, which makes this school 52% below average.
A total of 20 schools make up Santa Barbara Unified, with 12,247 students enrolled.
The share of students at Santa Barbara Community Academy who are Hispanic is 95%. Other groups include 3% multiracial. By comparison, Santa Barbara County residents are about 48% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 10, compared with 70 nationally.
There are about 17.6 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Santa Barbara Community Academy, which has 12.6. Elementary schools in California average 22.3:1, 4.7 more students per teacher than here. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Santa Barbara Community Academy is about 82%. That is higher than the 68% average for public schools in Santa Barbara County.
On the allk12 Grade, Santa Barbara Community Academy lands at C, ahead of 28% of California public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Santa Barbara Community Academy falls in the middle 80% of California schools: 28.8% actual against 31.3% predicted.
Census data for Santa Barbara County show median household income comes to about $98,161, about 37% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Counting Santa Barbara Community Academy, Santa Barbara County has 129 public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, La Cumbre Junior High, is less than a tenth of a mile. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Santa Barbara Community Academy is 7th of 7 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Santa Barbara Community Academy falls in the City: Small locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
From 246 students in 2020-21, enrollment fell to 221 by 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 17.6:1, from 20.5:1.
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Santa Barbara County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
443,701
Census ACS
Median income
$98,161
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
129
66,191 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Santa Barbara Unified
- Dos Pueblos Senior HighHigh · 2,149 students
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- La Colina Junior HighMiddle · 832 students
- Goleta Valley Junior HighMiddle · 731 students
- Santa Barbara Junior HighMiddle · 512 students
Other schools in Santa Barbara
- San Marcos Senior HighHigh · 1,926 students
- Santa Barbara Senior HighHigh · 1,924 students
- La Colina Junior HighMiddle · 832 students
- Peabody CharterElementary · 780 students
- Santa Barbara Junior HighMiddle · 512 students
- Washington ElementaryElementary · 477 students
Nearby schools
- La Cumbre Junior High0.0 mi · 426
- Harding University Partnership0.6 mi · 364
- Adams Elementary0.7 mi · 469
- Peabody Charter1.2 mi · 780
- Monroe Elementary1.3 mi · 315
- Roosevelt Elementary1.3 mi · 463
Frequently asked questions
About Santa Barbara Community AcademyHow many students attend Santa Barbara Community Academy?
Santa Barbara Community Academy enrolls approximately 221 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Santa Barbara Community Academy serve?
Santa Barbara Community Academy serves grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Santa Barbara Community Academy?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Santa Barbara Community Academy is approximately 17.6:1 (13 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Santa Barbara Community Academy?
Student demographics at Santa Barbara Community Academy are roughly 2% White, 95% Hispanic, 3% Two or more.
What district is Santa Barbara Community Academy in?
Santa Barbara Community Academy is part of Santa Barbara Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.