Kamala Elementary

Kamala Elementary, a roomy K-5 school in Oxnard, California, overseen by Oxnard, hosts 842 students, covering grades K through 8. That puts it 81% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Oxnard runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 13,003 students. Kamala Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Kamala Elementary logs that nearly all students (98%) are Hispanic. By comparison, Ventura County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 96% of students at Kamala Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Ventura County (around 59%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Kamala Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.6%.

Across the wider county, Ventura County reports that median household earnings sit near $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. Kamala Elementary is one of 238 public schools in Ventura County (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students).

McKinna Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kamala Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 21.6%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kamala Elementary has declined 29%, going from 1,180 students in 2018 to 842 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 25.6:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 in 2025.

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