Emilie Ritchen Elementary

As a reasonably sized elementary school in Oxnard, California, Emilie Ritchen Elementary works with 445 students from grades K through 5, operated by Oxnard.

Oxnard comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 13,003 students; Emilie Ritchen Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Emilie Ritchen Elementary reports that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder is composed of 4% White, 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Ventura County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Ventura County's rate of about 59%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Emilie Ritchen Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 29.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.8%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Ventura County indicate median household earnings sit near $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), Emilie Ritchen Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Fremont Academy of Environmental Science & Innovative Design, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Emilie Ritchen Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 28.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Emilie Ritchen Elementary has declined 29%, going from 629 students in 2018 to 445 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 today.

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