Meiners Oaks Early Education

Meiners Oaks Early Education sits in Ojai, California, and is classified as an elementary school. Total enrollment is 71 students, and the grades served are kindergarten. Elementary schools in California have about 465 students on average; enrollment here is 85% lower.

Meiners Oaks Early Education reports to Ojai Unified, which has 7 schools and 2,008 students.

More than half of enrollment at Meiners Oaks Early Education is White: 68%. The remaining shares are 23% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Ventura County as a whole is about 52% White, so the school's share is higher. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 49%.

The school lists 4 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.8:1. Statewide, elementary schools in California average 22.3:1. Meiners Oaks Early Education has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 37%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Ventura County is 59%.

Looking at the county, Ventura County, median household income comes to about $109,797, about 36% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. The county has 238 public schools and about 147,841 students.

Meiners Oaks Early Education's closest public school neighbor is Nordhoff Jr. High, about 0.6 miles away. The five-mile area around Meiners Oaks Early Education holds at least 8 other public schools.

Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, reported enrollment went from 215 to 71. Such a large difference may reflect a change in the grades served. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 23.9:1 to 17.8:1.

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