Templeton Elementary

Set in Templeton, California, Templeton Elementary is an average-sized K-5 school, operated by Templeton Unified. It instructs 422 students across grades K through 2.

Templeton Elementary is one of 7 schools operated by Templeton Unified, a district that educates 2,214 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Templeton Elementary records that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 29% multiracial, 19% Hispanic. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

Looking at school resources, Templeton Elementary lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 19% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, census data for San Luis Obispo County shows the typical household earns roughly $97,446 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Templeton Elementary is one of 83 public schools in San Luis Obispo County (combined enrollment of about 33,339 students).

Templeton Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Templeton Elementary.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Templeton Elementary's enrollment has fell 14% since 2018, when it stood at 493 (now 422). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 67% to 49%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 23.5:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 today.

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