Mar Vista Elementary

Mar Vista Elementary is an elementary-level community of mid-tier scale in Oxnard, California, operated by Ocean View, works with 464 students in grades K through 5.

Within Ocean View, which oversees 18 schools and 9,093 students, Mar Vista Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Mar Vista Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). Beyond that, the school logs 2% White. 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, On paper, Mar Vista Elementary has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 81% of students at Mar Vista Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Ventura County (around 59%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Mar Vista Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 31.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 25.7%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Ventura County indicate the typical household earns roughly $109,797 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Mar Vista Elementary is one of 238 public schools in Ventura County (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students).

Nearest neighbor: Ocean View Junior High, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mar Vista Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 23.4%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Mar Vista Elementary's enrollment has contracted 9% since 2018, when it stood at 510 (now 464). Class-load math has narrowed: from 23.2:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.