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Carpinteria Unified

Carpinteria, California · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

1,924
Students enrolled
6
Public schools
104
Classroom teachers (FTE)
18.4:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Kindergarten 157
  • Grade 1 128
  • Grade 2 142
  • Grade 3 143
  • Grade 4 156
  • Grade 5 158
  • Grade 6 156
  • Grade 7 151
  • Grade 8 131
  • Grade 9 146
  • Grade 10 146
  • Grade 11 160
  • Grade 12 150

By race/ethnicity

  • Hispanic/Latino 72%
  • White 24%
  • Two or more races 2%
  • Asian <1%
  • Black or African American <1%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
  • Race not reported <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

67% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 1,274 of 1,912 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 53%
  • Reduced-price lunch 14%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$23,571 spent per student on day-to-day operations California median: $19,068 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $13,033
  • Support services $9,759
  • Other (food service, etc.) $779

Where the money comes from

  • Local 80%
  • State 16%
  • Federal 4%

Total revenue $48.3 milliontotal spending $52.9 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

KG to 12

Locale (NCES)

Suburb: Midsize

Total staff (FTE)

269

District office

1400 Linden Ave., Carpinteria CA 93013

County

Santa Barbara County

Official website

NCES District ID

607560

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About Carpinteria Unified

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

The Carpinteria Unified School District (CUSD) provides public education services to students in the Carpinteria Valley, with district boundaries reaching south to the Ventura County line and north to the community of Summerland. The District, serving approximately 2300 grades K-12 students, has nine schools – one comprehensive high school, two small alternative high schools, one middle school, and four elementary schools. Eight of the nine schools are located within the Carpinteria city limits. One elementary school is located in Summerland.
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