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Which teacher or staff member at Mar Vista Elementary deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
464
Elementary
DISTRICT 458 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OCEAN VIEW·NCES 062817004353
Mar Vista Elementary
2382 Etting Rd., Oxnard, CA 93033 · (805) 488-3659 · Ventura County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL464 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
21.1:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.7:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
378 students
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 123 | 27% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (123) is 98% larger than its 5th grade class (62).
Student demographics
10%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 23% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
31.9%
CA avg 49.1% . +14.9pp since 2014
Math
27.4%
CA avg 37.7% . +17.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 15 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 17 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 12.3% | 19.6% | 21.1% | 47.1% |
| Math | 7.8% | 19.6% | 28.9% | 43.6% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.9% | 27.4% |
| 2023-24 | 23.4% | 27.8% |
| 2022-23 | 23.7% | 22.2% |
| 2021-22 | 17.9% | 16.5% |
| 2018-19 | 21.5% | 17.3% |
| 2017-18 | 17.2% | 11.1% |
| 2016-17 | 13.2% | 11.9% |
| 2015-16 | 16.0% | 9.0% |
| 2014-15 | 17.0% | 10.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
27.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.8%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Mar Vista Elementary
Mar Vista Elementary's state test result (27.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar Vista Elementary this school | 464 | 81.5% | 27.4% |
| Hemet Dual Language Academy Hemet | 476 | 81.7% | 35.8% |
| Roosevelt Elementary Lindsay | 473 | 82.7% | 28.6% |
| Laurel Elementary Whittier | 465 | 81.3% | 40.0% |
| Victor F. Hodge Elementary Azusa | 460 | 79.6% | 34.2% |
| Edward B. Cole Academy Santa Ana | 431 | 82.4% | N/A |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Mar Vista Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Ventura County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.4% | #3,819 of 5,151 | #88 of 121 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.4% | #3,480 of 5,172 ▼ 164 | #76 of 122 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.9% | #3,789 of 5,172 ▲ 665 | #91 of 122 ▲ 17 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +12.4pp | #357 of 5,116 | #10 of 121 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 464 | #2,863 of 5,915 | #51 of 130 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.1:1 | #1,552 of 5,352 | #44 of 124 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 9.6% | #4,953 of 5,354 | #105 of 124 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.5% | #2,041 of 5,625 | #32 of 127 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.0% | #2,821 of 3,837 | #74 of 99 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
464
-32 (-6%) vs 2020
-22% since 1990-91, when it was 594
Student : Teacher
21.1:1
was 22.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 464 | 22 | 21.1:1 | 81% (378) |
| 2023-24 | 466 | 22.5 | 20.7:1 | 79% (369) |
| 2022-23 | 471 | 20 | 23.6:1 | 80% (375) |
| 2020-21 | 496 | 22 | 22.6:1 | 80% (399) |
| 2017-18 | 510 | 22 | 23.2:1 | 87% (446) |
| 2015-16 | 535 | 21 | 25.5:1 | 89% (477) |
| 2010-11 | 583 | N/A | N/A | 90% (524) |
| 2000-01 | 601 | 31 | 19.4:1 | 73% (441) |
| 1990-91 | 594 | 23 | 25.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mar Vista Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (510 to 464); teachers unchanged (22 to 22).
About Mar Vista Elementary
Mar Vista Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school in Oxnard, California, one of the schools in Ocean View. It covers kindergarten through 5, with a total enrollment of 464 students.
Ocean View has 4 schools; together they serve 2,075 students.
Mar Vista Elementary's enrollment is 95% Hispanic. After that, the student body is 2% White. Census figures show Ventura County is about 44% Hispanic. The school's diversity index is 10%, meaning two students picked at random have a 10% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school has about 21.1 students per teacher and 22 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. That is higher than the 59% average for public schools in Ventura County.
The model predicts 31.8% for a school in California with Mar Vista Elementary's free or reduced-price lunch share. Mar Vista Elementary posts 27.4%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Ventura County show that the median household income is $109,797, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Besides Mar Vista Elementary, Ventura County has 237 other public schools.
The closest other public school is Ocean View Junior High, about 0.1 miles away. Mar Vista Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Mar Vista Elementary ranks 2nd of 7 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 27.4% against a local average of 23.5%.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Mid-size.
Mar Vista Elementary's enrollment dropped from 496 in 2020-21 to 464 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 22.6:1; by 2024-25 it was 21.1:1.
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Ventura County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
837,469
Census ACS
Median income
$109,797
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
238
147,841 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Ocean View
- Ocean View Junior HighMiddle · 700 students
- Tierra Vista ElementaryElementary · 560 students
- Laguna Vista ElementaryElementary · 351 students
- Ocean View Early EducationElementary
Other schools in Oxnard
- Pacifica HighHigh · 2,675 students
- Oxnard HighHigh · 2,452 students
- Channel Islands HighHigh · 2,380 students
- Rio Mesa HighHigh · 1,951 students
- Hueneme HighHigh · 1,913 students
- Vista Real Charter HighHigh · 1,271 students
Other Mar Vista Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 1 state are named Mar Vista Elementary. Mar Vista Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Mar Vista ElementaryLos Angeles, CA · 590 students
- Mar Vista ElementaryAptos, CA · 270 students
Nearby schools
- Ocean View Junior High0.1 mi · 700
- Tierra Vista Elementary0.6 mi · 560
- Oxnard Middle College High0.7 mi · 194
- Fred L. Williams Elementary0.9 mi · 572
- Anacapa Adult Transition Program1.0 mi · 175
- Channel Islands High1.1 mi · 2,380
Frequently asked questions
About Mar Vista ElementaryHow many students attend Mar Vista Elementary?
Mar Vista Elementary enrolls approximately 464 students in grades KG-05.
Is Mar Vista Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Mar Vista Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Mar Vista Elementary?
Approximately 21.1:1 students per teacher at Mar Vista Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Mar Vista Elementary?
At Mar Vista Elementary, the student body is approximately 2% White, 95% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is Mar Vista Elementary public or private?
Mar Vista Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Ocean View.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.