Santa Rosa Road Academic Academy

Located at 8655 Santa Rosa Rd., in Atascadero, California, Santa Rosa Road Academic Academy is a small primary school that teaches 377 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Atascadero Unified.

Atascadero Unified comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 4,355 students; Santa Rosa Road Academic Academy is among them.

Looking at the student body, Santa Rosa Road Academic Academy records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 36% White, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

In terms of school funding signals, Santa Rosa Road Academic Academy records 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against San Luis Obispo County (around 54%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Santa Rosa Road Academic Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.6%; this one delivers 33.5%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for San Luis Obispo County indicate median household earnings sit near $97,446, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across San Luis Obispo County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,339 students), Santa Rosa Road Academic Academy is one campus in the mix.

San Gabriel Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Santa Rosa Road Academic Academy. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Santa Rosa Road Academic Academy at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 46.9%.

Santa Rosa Road Academic Academy operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Santa Rosa Road Academic Academy's enrollment has edged up 9% since 2018, when it stood at 347 (now 377). The White share of enrollment shrank from 46% to 36% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 24.8:1 in 2018 to 19.9:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Santa Rosa Road Academic Academy typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.