NCES CCD 2024-25 13 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Santa Paula, CA

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

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13
Schools
5,195
Students
30.5/100
Avg Resource Index
21.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Santa Paula has more public-school enrollment than 57% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Santa Paula'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

10 of Santa Paula's 13 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 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

High measured need meets a thin staffing ratio

Santa Paula's reporting schools show 70.3% free-lunch eligibility across measured enrollment, alongside an average 21.5:1 student-teacher ratio. These are separate constraints: one describes the economic context of enrolled students and the other compares student and teacher headcounts. The 33-point gap between Isbell Middle and Olivelands Elementary is therefore more useful than the city mean alone. A school with a similar ratio may still report different counselor access, attendance, or gifted-program availability, so open the campus records before drawing conclusions about student support.

City enrollment
Top 43%
School count
Top 28%
Resource Index average
13th percentile
Teacher staffing
10th percentile

Santa Paula High accounts for 28.8% of all Santa Paula public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Santa Paula-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

Santa Paula school enrollment varies 28× across entities

Santa Paula school enrollment ranges from 53 students (lowest) to 1,494 students (highest), a spread of 1,441 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

Santa Paula reports 70.3% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share sits between 62.5% and 75%, above a simple majority but below the highest descriptive band used here. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Santa Paula student-teacher ratio is 21.5:1 — 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

# School Score
1. Isbell Middle 48
2. Santa Paula High 41
3. Renaissance High 39
4. Barbara Webster Elementary 35
5. Thelma Bedell Elementary 35
6. Briggs Elementary 34
7. Santa Clara Elementary 31
8. Mupu Elementary 29
9. Grace Thille Elementary 27
10. Mckevett Elementary 23
11. Glen City Elementary 21
12. Blanchard Elementary 18
13. Olivelands Elementary 15

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Santa Paula

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 Santa Clara Elementary 53.4/100
  2. 2 Mupu Elementary 38.4/100
  3. 3 Thelma Bedell Elementary 19.9/100
  4. 4 Mckevett Elementary 16.2/100
  5. 5 Blanchard Elementary 12.4/100

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Which Santa Paula school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Isbell Middle has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Santa Paula schools in this federal-data comparison at 48/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Santa Paula, CA? ▼

Santa Paula has 13 public schools with a total enrollment of 5,195 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 21.5:1.

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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.