Barbara Webster Elementary

Located at 1150 Saticoy St., in Santa Paula, California, Barbara Webster Elementary is a small elementary school that works with 325 students (grades K through 6), run under Santa Paula Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 30% below typical.

Within Santa Paula Unified, which oversees 10 schools and 4,570 students, Barbara Webster Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Barbara Webster Elementary logs that nearly all students (95%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 2% White. By comparison, Ventura County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Ventura County (around 59%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Barbara Webster Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.6%, the actual is 22.8%, a residual of -2.8 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Ventura County put the typical household earns roughly $109,797 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Ventura County runs 238 public schools (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students), of which Barbara Webster Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is McKevett Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Barbara Webster Elementary at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 30.5%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Barbara Webster Elementary has ticked down 7%, going from 348 students in 2018 to 325 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.

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