West LA Times

Out of 10,616 students enrolled in Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, 7.9 percent were in seventh-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.

Grade	Number of students	Total %
Kindergarten	824	7.8
First	705	6.6
Second	729	6.9
Third	748	7
Fourth	719	6.8
Fifth	837	7.9
Sixth	874	8.2
Seventh	840	7.9
Eighth	831	7.8
Ninth	878	8.3
10th	906	8.5
11th	830	7.8
12th	895	8.4