Blanchard Elementary

Set in Santa Paula, California, Blanchard Elementary is a close-knit K-5 school, part of Santa Paula Unified. It teaches 317 students across grades K through 6. That puts it 32% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Blanchard Elementary is one of 10 schools operated by Santa Paula Unified, a district that serves 4,570 students overall.

On demographics, Blanchard Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (93%). The remainder consists of 6% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Blanchard Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Ventura County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Blanchard Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 29.5%; this one comes in at 14.8%, -14.8 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Ventura County) reports that median household income runs about $109,797, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Ventura County's 238 public schools (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students), Blanchard Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Santa Paula Unified School District Independent Studies, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Blanchard Elementary. On composite proficiency, Blanchard Elementary comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 29.5%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Blanchard Elementary has edged down 16%, going from 379 students in 2018 to 317 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 22.3:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 today.

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