Public school / Primary
Clarence Ruth Elementary
Lompoc, California
- NCES ID
- 062241002689
- District
- Lompoc Unified
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Clarence Ruth Elementary is a public primary school in Lompoc, California, run by Lompoc Unified. It enrols 471 students — the 40990th largest of 10,418 public schools in California.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
471
Teachers
21.0
Students per teacher
22.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
83.9%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Lompoc Unified
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Lompoc High1,690 students
- 2Cabrillo High1,066 students
- 3Lompoc Valley Middle807 students
- 4Arthur Hapgood Elementary695 students
- 5Miguelito Elementary645 students
- 6Vandenberg Middle594 students
- 7La Canada Elementary592 students
- 8Leonora Fillmore Elementary512 students
- Enrollment−0.6%
- Teachers0.0%
- Students per teacher+1.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+23.6%
Where this sits
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory