Shandon Elementary

Shandon Elementary is a micro-enrollment elementary school in Shandon, California, overseen by Shandon Joint Unified. The school caters to 167 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Shandon Elementary sits 64% smaller than that benchmark.

Shandon Joint Unified comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 261 students; Shandon Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Shandon Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%). Other groups include 11% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the resource side, Shandon Elementary records 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Shandon Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 65% of students at Shandon Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than San Luis Obispo County's rate of about 54%.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Shandon Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 40.6%; actual is 20.0%, a gap of -20.6 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for San Luis Obispo County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,446 per year, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across San Luis Obispo County's 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,339 students), Shandon Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Shandon High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, Shandon Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.7%.

Shandon Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 26%: 225 students in 2018 compared to 167 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 75% to 87% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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