McKinna Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Oxnard, California, McKinna Elementary educates 577 students from grades K through 5, operated by Oxnard. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so McKinna Elementary sits 24% above that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, McKinna Elementary logs that nearly all students (98%) are Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, McKinna Elementary has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.6:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 93% of students at McKinna Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Ventura County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, McKinna Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 24.1%, the actual is 18.4%, a residual of -5.8 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Ventura County put median household income runs about $109,797, 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), McKinna Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Dr. Manuel M. Lopez Academy of Arts & Sciences is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, McKinna Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 23.9%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 21%: 726 students in 2018 compared to 577 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.2:1 in 2018 to 22.6:1 today.

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