Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 6
Rio del Mar Elementary, Aptos, CA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 393
- Teachers (FTE)
- 19.0
- Students per teacher
- 20.7
- Grades
- K to 6
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 21.3. 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
- 819 Pinehurst Dr., Aptos, CA 95003
- Phone
- (831)688-2053
- District
- Pajaro Valley Unified
- County
- Santa Cruz County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Midsize
- NCES school ID
- 062949004549
School meals
- Free lunch
- 65
- Reduced-price lunch
- 22
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 8722.1% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 59Students 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 Pajaro Valley Unified
- Alianza Charter 626 students
- Bradley Elementary 520 students
- Calabasas Elementary 512 students
- Mintie White Elementary 493 students
- Valencia Elementary 487 students
- Freedom Elementary 479 students
- H. A. Hyde Elementary 476 students
- Hall District Elementary 470 students
- T. S. MacQuiddy Elementary 438 students
- Amesti Elementary 431 students
- Landmark Elementary 419 students
- Watsonville Charter School of the Arts 415 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.