Lang Ranch

Lang Ranch is one of the expansive elementary campuss in Thousand Oaks, California, operated by Conejo Valley Unified, with 723 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 55% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

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

Demographically, Lang Ranch reports that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 17% Asian, 14% Hispanic, 10% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 19% of students at Lang Ranch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Ventura County's rate of about 59%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lang Ranch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.4%, the actual is 76.2%, a residual of +7.8 points.

Across the wider county, Ventura County reports that the typical household earns roughly $109,797 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Ventura County's 238 public schools (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students), Lang Ranch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Los Cerritos Middle, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lang Ranch. On composite proficiency, Lang Ranch comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 59.3%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 9%: 666 students in 2018 compared to 723 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 62% to 57% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 24.7:1 in 2018 to 22.3:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Lang Ranch community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.