Mountain Meadows Elementary

Mountain Meadows Elementary is an elementary school of reasonably sized scale in Moorpark, California, overseen by Moorpark Unified, serveing 424 students in grades K through 5.

Moorpark Unified comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 5,599 students; Mountain Meadows Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Mountain Meadows Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 43% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Ventura County as a whole.

On the resource side, Mountain Meadows Elementary records 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Mountain Meadows Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Ventura County's rate of about 59%.

With demographic context factored in, Mountain Meadows Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 59.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 53.5%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Ventura County indicate the typical household earns roughly $109,797 per year, 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), Mountain Meadows Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Moorpark High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mountain Meadows Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mountain Meadows Elementary at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 53.3%.

Mountain Meadows Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 11%: 478 students in 2018 compared to 424 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 in 2025.

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