Curren Elementary

Located at 1101 North F St., in Oxnard, California, Curren Elementary is a large elementary campus that educates 817 students (grades K through 8), run under Oxnard. That puts it 76% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Across the 20 schools in Oxnard (13,003 students total), Curren Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Curren Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (97%). That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Curren Elementary has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Ventura County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Curren Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.1%, the actual is 23.6%, a residual of -0.5 points.

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

Fremont Academy of Environmental Science & Innovative Design is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Curren Elementary at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 23.1%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Curren Elementary's enrollment has shrank 22% since 2018, when it stood at 1,041 (now 817). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.4:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 today.

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