Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5
Captain Cooper Elementary, Big Sur, CA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 47
- Teachers (FTE)
- 5.0
- Students per teacher
- 9.4
- Grades
- K to 5
This school's ratio is 6.3 lower than the district figure of 15.7. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- Highway 1, Big Sur, CA 93920
- Phone
- (831)667-2452
- District
- Carmel Unified
- County
- Monterey County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Rural: Distant
- NCES school ID
- 060753000716
School meals
- Free lunch
- 13
- Reduced-price lunch
- 10
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 2348.9% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 7Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in Carmel Unified
- Tularcitos Elementary 447 students
- Carmel River Elementary 400 students
- Carmel Child Development Center 0 students
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.