Medea Creek Middle

Medea Creek Middle is one of the large middle-grades schools in Oak Park, California, run under Oak Park Unified, with 1,090 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Medea Creek Middle sits 65% larger than that benchmark.

Oak Park Unified runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 4,437 students. Medea Creek Middle is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Medea Creek Middle reports that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 27% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Medea Creek Middle shows 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.5:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 14% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Ventura County's rate of about 59%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Medea Creek Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 70.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 75.5%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Ventura County) logs that median household income runs about $109,797, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Ventura County's 238 public schools (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students), Medea Creek Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Oak Park High, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Medea Creek Middle. On composite proficiency, Medea Creek Middle comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 75.5%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Medea Creek Middle has changed only slightly, going from 1,088 students in 2018 to 1,090 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 59% to 53%.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.