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Watsonville Charter School of the Arts, Watsonville, CA

Charter schoolCEP schoolWatsonville Charter School of the Arts is a public elementary school in Watsonville, part of Pajaro Valley Unified. It enrolled 415 students in 2024-25, with 23.1 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
415
Teachers (FTE)
18.0
Students per teacher
23.1
Grades
K to 8

This school's ratio is 1.8 higher than 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.

This school23.1
District21.3
California21.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
115 Casserly Rd. West Campus, Watsonville, CA 95076
County
Santa Cruz County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
Yes
Virtual
No
Locale
Rural: Fringe
NCES school ID
062949010413
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
183
Reduced-price lunch
49
Free or reduced-price lunch
23255.9% of enrollment.
Direct certification
152Students 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

Elementary schools elsewhere in Watsonville

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.