Arroyo West Elementary

Located at 4117 Country Hill Rd., in Moorpark, California, Arroyo West Elementary is a close-knit elementary school that teaches 385 students (grades K through 5), run under Moorpark Unified.

Moorpark Unified comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 5,599 students; Arroyo West Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Arroyo West Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 36% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.0:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Ventura County (around 59%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Arroyo West Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.4%, the actual is 50.0%, a residual of -5.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Ventura County) records that the typical household earns roughly $109,797 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Arroyo West Elementary is one of 238 public schools in Ventura County (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students).

The closest other public school is Moorpark High, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Arroyo West Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.8%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Arroyo West Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 14% since 2018, when it stood at 446 (now 385). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 42% to 36%.

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