Elmhurst Elementary

Located at 5080 Elmhurst St., in Ventura, California, Elmhurst Elementary is a low-enrollment K-5 school that hosts 378 students (grades K through 5), part of Ventura Unified.

Elmhurst Elementary is one of 27 schools operated by Ventura Unified, a district that educates 14,346 students overall.

Demographically, Elmhurst Elementary reports that 61% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 31% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Ventura County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Ventura County's rate of about 59%.

After controlling for student poverty, Elmhurst Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.8%; this one delivers 34.6%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Ventura County) records that 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 Elmhurst Elementary is one.

El Camino High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 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 Elmhurst Elementary at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 50.2%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Elmhurst Elementary has ticked down 16%, going from 448 students in 2018 to 378 in 2025.

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