Winifred Pifer Elementary

Winifred Pifer Elementary, a mid-sized primary school in Paso Robles, California, overseen by Paso Robles Joint Unified, caters to 492 students, covering grades K through 6.

Paso Robles Joint Unified comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 6,902 students; Winifred Pifer Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Winifred Pifer Elementary logs that 68% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 25% White, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.9:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 82% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against San Luis Obispo County (around 54%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Winifred Pifer Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.8%, the actual is 30.4%, a residual of -0.4 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (San Luis Obispo County) logs that median household earnings sit near $97,446, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, San Luis Obispo County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,339 students), of which Winifred Pifer Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Almond Acres Charter Academy, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Winifred Pifer Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 35.6%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 488 students in 2018 compared to 492 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 31% to 25% over that span.

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