Glenwood Elementary

As a tight-knit elementary-level community in Thousand Oaks, California, Glenwood Elementary serves 218 students from grades K through 5, operated by Conejo Valley Unified. That puts it 53% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Glenwood Elementary is one of 26 schools operated by Conejo Valley Unified, a district that hosts 15,713 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Glenwood Elementary logs that nearly all students (93%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 4% White. By comparison, Ventura County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 79% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Ventura County (around 59%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Glenwood Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.2%, the actual is 27.8%, a residual of -4.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Ventura County put median household income runs about $109,797, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Ventura County runs 238 public schools (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students), of which Glenwood Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Acacia Magnet School for Enriched Learning, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Glenwood Elementary comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 54.1%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 31%: 317 students in 2018 compared to 218 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 83% to 93% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 21.8:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.