NCES CCD 2024-25 9 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Atascadero, CA

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9 public K-12 schools in Atascadero from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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9
Schools
3,976
Students
25.3/100
Avg Resource Index
24.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Atascadero has more public-school enrollment than 44% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Atascadero's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

5 of Atascadero's 9 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 3 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Atascadero lists only 9 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 55 to 1,157 students, a 21-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 56%
School count
Top 46%
Resource Index average
4th percentile
Teacher staffing
3rd percentile

Atascadero High accounts for 29.1% of all Atascadero public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Atascadero-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Atascadero school enrollment varies 21× across entities

Atascadero school enrollment ranges from 55 students (lowest) to 1,157 students (highest), a spread of 1,102 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Atascadero operates one school district — a single-district system

Atascadero's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Atascadero student-teacher ratio is 24.1:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Paloma Creek High 52
2. Atascadero Middle 46
3. Atascadero High 45
4. San Benito Elementary 18
5. Monterey Road Elementary 18
6. Atascadero Choices in Education Academy (Ace) 17
7. Fine Arts Academy 16
8. San Gabriel Elementary 9
9. Santa Rosa Road Academic Academy 7

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Atascadero

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 San Gabriel Elementary 61.8/100
  2. 2 Santa Rosa Road Academic Academy 61.7/100
  3. 3 Monterey Road Elementary 56.3/100
  4. 4 Atascadero Middle 54.9/100
  5. 5 San Benito Elementary 54.5/100

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Which Atascadero school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Paloma Creek High has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Atascadero schools in this federal-data comparison at 52/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Atascadero, CA? ▼

Atascadero has 9 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,976 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 24.1:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.