Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 6
Rice (William) Elementary, Santa Maria, CA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 887
- Teachers (FTE)
- 40.0
- Students per teacher
- 22.2
- Grades
- K to 6
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 21.2. 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
- 700 East Vickie Ave., Santa Maria, CA 93454
- Phone
- (805)361-7740
- County
- Santa Barbara County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Midsize
- NCES school ID
- 060558009321
School meals
- Free lunch
- 759
- Reduced-price lunch
- 85
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 84495.2% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 549Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
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 Santa Maria-Bonita School District
- Jimenez Roberto and Dr. Francisco Elementary 1,177 students
- Bruce (Robert) Elementary 1,050 students
- Alvin Elementary 998 students
- Tunnell (Martin Luther) Elementary 917 students
- Miller (Isaac) Elementary 883 students
- Adam (William Laird) Elementary 874 students
- Ontiveros (Juan Pacifico) Elementary 869 students
- Liberty Elementary 865 students
- Oakley (Calvin C.) Elementary 849 students
- Taylor (Ida Redmond) Elementary 849 students
- Bill Libbon Elementary 834 students
- Battles (Washington) Elementary 769 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in Santa Maria
- Joe Nightingale Elementary Orcutt Union Elementary
- Patterson Road Elementary Orcutt Union Elementary
- Pine Grove Elementary Orcutt Union Elementary
- Alice Shaw Elementary Orcutt Union Elementary
- Ralph Dunlap Elementary Orcutt Union Elementary
- Benjamin Foxen Elementary Blochman Union Elementary
- Orcutt School for Independent Study Orcutt Union Elementary
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.