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Public school / Primary

Orcutt School for Independent Study

Orcutt, California

NCES ID
062871014591
District
Orcutt Union Elementary
School type
Alternative
Title I
Not designated

Orcutt School for Independent Study is a public primary school in Orcutt, California, run by Orcutt Union Elementary. It enrols 47 students — the 91895th 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

47students

91895th nationally, tied with 95

Teachers

3.0FTE

91789th nationally, tied with 1,029

Students per teacher

15.7students

54048th nationally, tied with 843

Free or reduced-price lunch

61.7%percent

38916th nationally, tied with 90

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 Orcutt 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Orcutt Academy Charter767 students
  2. 2Joe Nightingale Elementary720 students
  3. 3Patterson Road Elementary612 students
  4. 4Alice Shaw Elementary511 students
  5. 5Pine Grove Elementary510 students
  6. 6Ralph Dunlap Elementary471 students
  7. 7Orcutt Junior High468 students
  8. 8Lakeview Junior High442 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment−90.1%
  • Teachers−85.7%
  • Students per teacher−29.0%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−9.1%
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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.