Grace Thille Elementary

Located at 1144 Ventura St., in Santa Paula, California, Grace Thille Elementary is an intimate elementary campus that caters to 358 students (grades K through 6), overseen by Santa Paula Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 23% below typical.

Santa Paula Unified runs 10 schools in total, collectively educating 4,570 students. Grace Thille Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Grace Thille Elementary lists that nearly all students (96%) are Hispanic; the rest comes out to 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 93% of students at Grace Thille Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Ventura County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Grace Thille 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 33.2%, a residual of +9.1 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Ventura County indicate median household earnings sit near $109,797, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Grace Thille Elementary is one of 238 public schools in Ventura County (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students).

Nearest neighbor: Barbara Webster Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Grace Thille Elementary. On composite proficiency, Grace Thille Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 28.8%.

Grace Thille Elementary operates from a town-center location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 11%: 402 students in 2018 compared to 358 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, members of the Grace Thille Elementary community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.