Marina West Elementary

Marina West Elementary, an average-sized elementary campus in Oxnard, California, run under Oxnard, works with 440 students, covering grades K through 5.

Across the 20 schools in Oxnard (13,003 students total), Marina West Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Marina West Elementary lists that 93% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 3% White. By comparison, Ventura County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Marina West Elementary has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Ventura County's rate of about 59%.

After controlling for student poverty, Marina West Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.3%, the actual is 26.1%, a residual of -3.2 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Ventura County) logs that 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. Across Ventura County's 238 public schools (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students), Marina West Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Christa McAuliffe Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Marina West Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 25.7%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Marina West Elementary's enrollment has fell 29% since 2018, when it stood at 618 (now 440). Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 19.1:1 in 2025.

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