Junipero Serra Elementary

As a mid-sized elementary-level community in Ventura, California, Junipero Serra Elementary educates 418 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Ventura Unified.

Within Ventura Unified, which oversees 27 schools and 14,346 students, Junipero Serra Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Junipero Serra Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 37% White, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the resource side, The school reports having 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Junipero Serra Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 54% of students at Junipero Serra Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Junipero Serra Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 47.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.9%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Ventura County put median household income runs about $109,797, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Junipero Serra Elementary is one of 238 public schools in Ventura County (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students).

The closest other public school is Citrus Glen Elementary, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Junipero Serra Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 39.9%.

Junipero Serra Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Junipero Serra Elementary has decreased 22%, going from 538 students in 2018 to 418 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 46% to 37% over that span.

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