Banyan Elementary

Set in Newbury Park, California, Banyan Elementary is a reasonably sized primary school, run under Conejo Valley Unified. It hosts 416 students across grades K through 5.

Conejo Valley Unified comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 15,713 students; Banyan Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Banyan Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment; the rest reads as 33% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Banyan Elementary records 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.9:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Ventura County (around 59%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Banyan Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 62.2%; this one delivers 76.1%.

In the surrounding community, Ventura County reports that median household earnings sit near $109,797, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Ventura County runs 238 public schools (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students), of which Banyan Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Cypress Elementary, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Banyan Elementary. On composite proficiency, Banyan Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 58.3%.

Banyan Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Banyan Elementary's enrollment has declined 10% since 2018, when it stood at 461 (now 416). Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.3:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 in 2025.

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