Harrington Elementary

Set in Oxnard, California, Harrington Elementary is a mid-tier K-5 school, one of the schools within Oxnard. It teaches 513 students across grades K through 5.

Harrington Elementary is one of 20 schools operated by Oxnard, a district that enrolls 13,003 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Harrington Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (99%). The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 90% of students at Harrington Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Ventura County's rate of about 59%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Harrington Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 25.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.6%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Ventura County put the typical household earns roughly $109,797 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Ventura County's 238 public schools (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students), Harrington Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Ansgar Larsen Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harrington Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Harrington Elementary at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 20.5%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 14%: 595 students in 2018 compared to 513 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.8:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 in 2025.

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