Teach Elementary

Teach Elementary is a middle-grades school of one-room-style scale in San Luis Obispo, California, part of San Luis Coastal Unified, instructing 193 students in grades 4 through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Teach Elementary sits 71% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 16 schools in San Luis Coastal Unified (7,653 students total), Teach Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Teach Elementary reports that White students make up the majority at 70%; the rest comes out to 12% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 8% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 32.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Roughly 25% of students at Teach Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, San Luis Obispo County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Teach Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 64.4%; actual is 90.7%, +26.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for San Luis Obispo County indicate the typical household earns roughly $97,446 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Teach Elementary is one of 83 public schools in San Luis Obispo County (combined enrollment of about 33,339 students).

San Luis Obispo High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Teach Elementary comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 61.6%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Teach Elementary has increased 22%, going from 158 students in 2018 to 193 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 12% to 8% across the same window.

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