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Pacific View Academy

· San Luis Obispo County · Lucia Mar Unified · Public

Public San Luis Obispo County 🏛 Lucia Mar Unified → CDS 4068759…
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Programs & features
  • ✅ Gifted & talented program
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 37% of US high schools

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Pacific View Academy compares for families

Solid mid-tier academic profile.

  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Lopez Continuation High, Pacific Beach High, Central Coast New Tech High and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21
SAT/ACT test-takers
0
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test
Test-taking intensity
0.0
takers per 100 students in grades 9-12

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.

🏛️ Federal Title I context

Title I Schoolwide eligible

≥40% FRPL — qualifies for Title I Schoolwide program

53.5%
FRPL rate — % of students who qualify for the federal Free or Reduced-Price Lunch program. This is the underlying federal income-eligibility signal Title I designations are computed from (ESEA Sec. 1113).
0% (no FRPL) 35% TA · 40% Schoolwide 100% (universal FRPL)

40-74% of students qualify for free/reduced lunch. The district can use Title I funds across the whole school under federal Schoolwide Program rules.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, free/reduced-price lunch eligibility. The actual Title I designation is a district decision and may differ from eligibility — but the federal eligibility math is what we show here. We don't claim to assert whether the district formally chose to enroll this school in Title I.

SBAC academic outcomes — grade 11, 2025

Share of grade-11 students meeting or exceeding the California standard on Smarter Balanced ELA and Math. This is the academic-readiness signal that pairs with UC Reach (post-grad outcomes), stability (retention), and absenteeism (engagement). Note: statewide median Math is only ~20% — a school at 20% isn't an outlier; one at 45%+ genuinely is.

ELA — met or exceeded
n = 26
50.0%
incl. 15.4% exceeded
-6.0 pts vs. San Luis Obispo County median (56.0%) · CA median 54.3% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 79.3%
Math — met or exceeded
n = 27
3.7%
incl. 0.0% exceeded
-14.0 pts vs. San Luis Obispo County median (17.7%) · CA median 21.1% · Top 10% statewide ≥ 53.6%

Source: California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) Smarter Balanced research files. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥30 tested students.

Student composition — 2025-26

HS grades 9–12 racial/ethnic composition and program subgroups, from CDE Census Day Enrollment. Two-year shift shown when ≥1 pt — surfaces how the community served has changed since 2023-24.

Race / ethnicity

White 62% +12.2
Hispanic / Latino 27% -8.3
Two or more 7% -3.0
Not reported 4% +3.1

Program subgroups

Students w/ disabilities 15% -42.9

Source: California Department of Education, Census Day Enrollment 2025-26 (HS grades 9–12). Δ shown when shift is ≥1 pt since 2023-24. Categories below 0.5% omitted.

Chronic absenteeism — 2024-25

Share of students missing 10% or more of expected attendance — the leading indicator that often precedes the demand decline shown above. Families disengaging tend to raise absenteeism first, then formally leave. Basis: grades 9–12.

Chronic absent
39.7%
50 of 126 students

Absenteeism is down 11.5 pp since 2020-21. Engagement improving — a positive trajectory worth understanding and reinforcing.

San Luis Obispo County median
23.1% · school is worse than 79% of 14 HS
Statewide median
22.9%
Chronic absenteeism by year (raw %)

Source: California Department of Education, Chronic Absenteeism 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 eligible students. CDE didn't publish a usable 2019-20 file (COVID).

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment (9–12)
462 (2021)107 (2026)
-76.8%
Grade 12 (graduating class)
33 (2022)26 (2026)
-21.2%

If this trend holds (-25.4%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~80 -27 $0
3 yr (2029) ~44 -63 $0
5 yr (2031) ~25 -82 $0

Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423/ADA). Edit the figure to match your school.

Pacific View Academy — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • Senior-class enrollment is down 21% (33→26 from 2022 to 2026), trailing the peer-group median of -11%.
  • At its recent rate (-25.4%/yr), enrollment projects to ~44 by 2029 — about 63 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

107 students (2026)
~44 projected (2029)
at -25.4%/yr

That's about 63 fewer students. At per-student funding of $ per student, that's roughly $0 in annual state funding at risk.

Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423 per ADA) — adjust to your district's actual per-pupil figure. Projection extrapolates the recent annual rate — not a forecast of intent.

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Enroll. trend
Pacific View Academy Public 107 -21%
Peer-group median -11%
Lopez Continuation High Public 86 -18%
Pacific Beach High Public 59 -15%
Central Coast New Tech High Public 314 -4%
Maple High Public 129 +150%
Templeton Independent Study Hs Public 99 +65%
Atascadero Choices In Education Academy (ace) Public 166 +115%
Valley Oak Charter Public 107 -78%
Wasco Independence High Public 108 -8%
Grizzly Challenge Charter Public 249 -28%
Alpaugh High School Public 117 -24%

UC Reach = top-6 UC admits ÷ senior class (can exceed 100% when students are admitted to multiple campuses). Enrollment trend = first-to-latest grade-12 change on file. Similar schools matched on proximity, size, type. Methodology →

Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25

Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the San Luis Obispo County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Critical
Compounding decline on both vectors.

Enrollment -21.2% vs. county -8.6% AND stability (40.1%) below the county median. Recruitment and retention both under pressure — likely a foundational rather than tactical problem. Chronic absenteeism is also at 34.1% (up -17.1 pts from 2020-21) — engagement and demand are both signaling decline.

-21.2%  school enrollment (2022–2026)
-8.6%  San Luis Obispo County baseline
-12.6pp  gap vs. county
40.1%  retention (county median 84.9%)
Enrollment — indexed to 100 at 2022
Stability rate by year (raw %)
Stability rate
40.1%
55 of 137 students

82 of 137 students who enrolled at Pacific View Academy this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (59.9% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

San Luis Obispo County median
84.9% · school is in the 25th percentile of 16 HS
Statewide median
87.2% · in the 12th percentile of 1,688 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (112) 34.8%
White (91) 45.1%
Hispanic / Latino (70) 32.9%
Students w/ disabilities (22) 40.9%

Nearest peer high schools

Lopez Continuation High 32.5% Pacific Beach High 28.7% Central Coast New Tech High 89.9% Maple High 30.3% Templeton Independent Study Hs 69.0%

Source: California Department of Education, Stability Rate 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 cumulative enrollees so by-design-high-churn continuation schools don't dominate the bottom of the distribution. Cumulative enrollment counts every student on the rolls during the year, so it can exceed peak-day enrollment.

District financial profile — Lucia Mar Unified (FY2020)

From 4 years of NCES F-33 filings (the federally-mandated district finance survey). Public schools don't have their own books — the district does. These figures show the financial scale, revenue dependence, instruction-vs-overhead mix, and long-term debt that shape what a school can sustain.

Total revenue
$145.6M
+9.2% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$14,674
9,921 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 27.4%
Local: 62.3%
Federal: 10.4%
Instruction share
60.6%
of current spending · $7,851/pupil
Long-term debt
$139.4M
+19.5% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($M)
Total expenditure by year ($M)

Source: NCES F-33 Annual Survey of School System Finances (Urban Institute Education Data API). Latest year currently published: FY2020. F-33 is a district-level federal filing — it reflects the Lucia Mar Unified as a whole, not this individual school's books. Revenue mix shows where the district's dollars come from (state aid dominates in CA via LCFF). Instruction share is current expenditure on instruction ÷ total current expenditure (national benchmark ~60%). Long-term debt is end-of-year outstanding (mostly facilities bonds).

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