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Public school / Primary

Ocean Alternative Education Center

Santa Cruz, California

NCES ID
062199010412
District
Live Oak Elementary
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Ocean Alternative Education Center is a public primary school in Santa Cruz, California, run by Live Oak Elementary. It enrols 84 students — the 88739th largest of 10,418 public schools in California.

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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

84students

88739th nationally, tied with 92

Teachers

4.0FTE

90701st nationally, tied with 1,087

Students per teacher

21.0students

81633rd nationally, tied with 313

Free or reduced-price lunch

35.7%percent

64532nd nationally, tied with 112

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.

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Within Live Oak 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Shoreline Middle441 students
  2. 2Live Oak Elementary352 students
  3. 3Del Mar Elementary342 students
  4. 4Green Acres Elementary315 students
  5. 5Tierra Pacifica Charter155 students
  6. 6Ocean Alternative Education Center84 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: California median across 10,418 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−82.3%
  • Teachers−81.0%
  • Students per teacher−5.0%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−47.4%
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Where this sits

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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.