Ladera STARS Academy

Ladera STARS Academy is one of the intimate K-5 schools in Thousand Oaks, California, operated by Conejo Valley Unified, with 312 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 33% below the state mean of about 465.

Conejo Valley Unified runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 15,713 students. Ladera STARS Academy is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Ladera STARS Academy shows that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 38% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Black.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Ladera STARS Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. About 32% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Ventura County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Ladera STARS Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 60.9%.

In the area at large, census data for Ventura County shows the typical household earns roughly $109,797 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Ventura County's 238 public schools (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students), Ladera STARS Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: BRIDGES Charter, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ladera STARS Academy. On composite proficiency, Ladera STARS Academy comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 57.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 5%: 297 students in 2018 compared to 312 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment ticked down from 9% to 4% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 today.

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