Citrus Glen Elementary

As a mid-sized K-5 school in Ventura, California, Citrus Glen Elementary hosts 491 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Ventura Unified.

Citrus Glen Elementary is one of 27 schools operated by Ventura Unified, a district that enrolls 14,346 students overall.

On demographics, Citrus Glen Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 55%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 34% White, 6% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Citrus Glen Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.6%, the actual is 34.2%, a residual of -10.4 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Ventura County shows the typical household earns roughly $109,797 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Ventura County's 238 public schools (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students), Citrus Glen Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Junipero Serra Elementary, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Citrus Glen Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Citrus Glen Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 47.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 18%: 600 students in 2018 compared to 491 in 2025.

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