SLO Reporter

Out of 7,812 students enrolled in San Luis Coastal Unified School District, 7.3 percent were in 11th-grade during the 2018-2019 school year, according to the California Department of Education.

The grade with the highest concentration of students was ninth-grade with 8.4 percent of all students.

According to numbers provided by the National Center for Education Services, California is expected to see a decrease of three percent in public elementary and secondary school enrollment from 2017-2029. The state expected to see the largest drop in enrollment is New Mexico with a projected 12 percent decrease, while Washington D.C. is projected to see a 14 percent increase over the same time period.

In a survey conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, seven percent of respondents said large class sizes was the biggest issue facing California's K-12 schools. In the same survey, 50 percent of the respondents said they didn’t view the financial resources their local public school was getting as adequate.

Grade	Number of students	Total %
Kindergarten	624	8
First	513	6.6
Second	595	7.6
Third	592	7.6
Fourth	595	7.6
Fifth	597	7.6
Sixth	597	7.6
Seventh	608	7.8
Eighth	638	8.2
Ninth	660	8.4
10th	632	8.1
11th	570	7.3
12th	591	7.6