Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 6
Shell Beach Elementary, Pismo Beach, CA
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 330
- Teachers (FTE)
- 16.0
- Students per teacher
- 20.6
- Grades
- K to 6
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 19.8. 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
- 2100 Shell Beach Rd., Pismo Beach, CA 93449
- Phone
- (805)474-3760
- District
- Lucia Mar Unified
- County
- San Luis Obispo County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Small
- NCES school ID
- 062308003529
School meals
- Free lunch
- 83
- Reduced-price lunch
- 26
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 10933.0% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 56Students 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 Lucia Mar Unified
- Harloe Elementary 619 students
- Dana Elementary 612 students
- Lange (Dorothea) Elementary 577 students
- Ocean View Elementary 547 students
- Nipomo Elementary 436 students
- Oceano Elementary 377 students
- Grover Beach Elementary 368 students
- Fairgrove Elementary 365 students
- Grover Heights Elementary 290 students
- Branch Elementary 261 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.