Monte Vista Middle

Monte Vista Middle is a middle-of-the-pack junior high in Camarillo, California, overseen by Pleasant Valley. The school caters to 576 students in grades 6 through 8.

Pleasant Valley comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 5,835 students; Monte Vista Middle is among them.

In terms of who attends, Monte Vista Middle records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 34% White, 9% Asian, 6% multiracial, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 45% of students are eligible 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 meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Monte Vista Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.4%, the actual is 38.2%, a residual of -14.2 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Ventura County shows the typical household earns roughly $109,797 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Monte Vista Middle is one of 238 public schools in Ventura County (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students).

Nearest neighbor: Camarillo Academy of Progressive Education, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Monte Vista Middle. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Monte Vista Middle at 4th of 5; the average score across the group is 52.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Monte Vista Middle has fell 25%, going from 767 students in 2018 to 576 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 37% to 48% over that span.

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