Will Rogers Elementary

Will Rogers Elementary operates as a mid-sized K-5 school in Santa Monica, California, part of Santa Monica-Malibu Unified. Current enrollment sits at 522 students spanning grades K through 5.

Will Rogers Elementary is one of 15 schools operated by Santa Monica-Malibu Unified, a district that educates 8,616 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Will Rogers Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 34% White, 12% Black, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Will Rogers Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Will Rogers Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.0%, the actual is 51.0%, a residual of -2.0 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Will Rogers Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is John Adams Middle, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Will Rogers Elementary. On composite proficiency, Will Rogers Elementary comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 70.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Will Rogers Elementary's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 525 (now 522). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.9:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 today.

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