San Joaquin Times

Out of 1,421 students enrolled in California Connections Academy @ Ripon, 9.2 percent were in eighth-grade during the 2020-2021 school year, according to the California Department of Education.

The grade with the highest concentration of students was 12th-grade with 14.8 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	35	2.5
First	50	3.5
Second	74	5.2
Third	74	5.2
Fourth	67	4.7
Fifth	63	4.4
Sixth	105	7.4
Seventh	125	8.8
Eighth	131	9.2
Ninth	146	10.3
10th	147	10.3
11th	194	13.7
12th	210	14.8