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Public school / Primary

Ortega Elementary

Pacifica, California

NCES ID
062046011430
District
Pacifica
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Ortega Elementary is a public primary school in Pacifica, California, run by Pacifica. It enrols 427 students — the 47103rd 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

427students

47103rd nationally, tied with 123

Teachers

19.0FTE

67148th nationally, tied with 2,240

Students per teacher

22.5students

85254th nationally, tied with 223

Free or reduced-price lunch

12.2%percent

82007th nationally, tied with 50

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 Pacifica

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. 1Cabrillo Elementary548 students
  2. 2Vallemar Elementary490 students
  3. 3Ingrid B. Lacy Middle445 students
  4. 4Ortega Elementary427 students
  5. 5Ocean Shore Elementary412 students
  6. 6Sunset Ridge Elementary394 students
  7. 7Pacifica Independent Home Study34 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment−9.9%
  • Teachers−9.5%
  • Students per teacher+1.8%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−82.0%
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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.