Public school / Primary
La Patera Elementary
Goleta, California
- NCES ID
- 061551001974
- District
- Goleta Union Elementary
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
La Patera Elementary is a public primary school in Goleta, California, run by Goleta Union Elementary. It enrols 376 students — the 54577th 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
376
Teachers
22.0
Students per teacher
17.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
46.8%
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 Goleta Union Elementary
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.
- 1Isla Vista Elementary463 students
- 2Brandon Elementary444 students
- 3Kellogg Elementary409 students
- 4La Patera Elementary376 students
- 5Foothill Elementary374 students
- 6Mountain View Elementary352 students
- 7Hollister Elementary344 students
- 8Ellwood Elementary341 students
- Enrollment−20.7%
- Teachers+4.8%
- Students per teacher−22.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−31.1%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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