Mesa Verde Middle

Located at 14000 Peach Hill Rd., in Moorpark, California, Mesa Verde Middle is a moderately sized intermediate school that serves 574 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Moorpark Unified.

Mesa Verde Middle is one of 10 schools operated by Moorpark Unified, a district that serves 5,599 students overall.

On demographics, Mesa Verde Middle records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 45%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 41% White, 9% Asian, 4% multiracial. Compared to Ventura County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Mesa Verde Middle shows 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.5:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 32% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Mesa Verde Middle sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 60.4%; actual is 42.4%, a gap of -18.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, Ventura County reports that median household income runs about $109,797, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Mesa Verde Middle is one of 238 public schools in Ventura County (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students).

Nearest neighbor: Peach Hill Academy, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mesa Verde Middle comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 55.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Mesa Verde Middle's enrollment has ticked down 16% since 2018, when it stood at 685 (now 574). The White share of enrollment declined from 46% to 41% over that span.

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