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Out of 10,616 students in Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, 8.2 percent were in sixth-grade during 2018-2019 school year

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Out of 10,616 students enrolled in Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, 8.2 percent were in sixth-grade during the 2018-2019 school year, according to the California Department of Education.

The grade with the highest concentration of students was 10th-grade with 8.5 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.

Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District grade breakdown
GradeNumber of studentsTotal %
Kindergarten8247.8
First7056.6
Second7296.9
Third7487
Fourth7196.8
Fifth8377.9
Sixth8748.2
Seventh8407.9
Eighth8317.8
Ninth8788.3
10th9068.5
11th8307.8
12th8958.4

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