Briggs Elementary

Briggs Elementary is a 6-8 campus of micro-enrollment scale in Santa Paula, California, overseen by Briggs Elementary, serveing 221 students in grades 5 through 8. That puts it 66% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Briggs Elementary is one of 2 schools operated by Briggs Elementary, a district that works with 457 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Briggs Elementary reports that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 3% White. By comparison, Ventura County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Briggs Elementary shows 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Roughly 67% of students at Briggs Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Briggs Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 39.9%; actual is 20.4%, a gap of -19.5 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Ventura County) reports that median household income runs about $109,797, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Ventura County's 238 public schools (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students), Briggs Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Blanchard Elementary, roughly 1.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Briggs Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 28.1%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 24%: 291 students in 2018 compared to 221 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 today.

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