Public school / Primary
Lu Sutton Elementary
Novato, California
- NCES ID
- 062772004188
- District
- Novato Unified
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Lu Sutton Elementary is a public primary school in Novato, California, run by Novato Unified. It enrols 347 students — the 58886th 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
347
Teachers
15.0
Students per teacher
23.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
53.6%
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 Novato 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.
- 1Novato High1,458 students
- 2San Marin High1,144 students
- 3Sinaloa Middle745 students
- 4Hamilton Meadow Park531 students
- 5San Jose Intermediate500 students
- 6Pleasant Valley Elementary433 students
- 7Loma Verde Elementary429 students
- 8San Ramon Elementary429 students
- Enrollment−26.8%
- Teachers−28.6%
- Students per teacher+4.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−21.1%
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