Norman R. Brekke Elementary

As an average-sized elementary campus in Oxnard, California, Norman R. Brekke Elementary teaches 585 students from grades K through 5, part of Oxnard. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Norman R. Brekke Elementary sits 26% larger than that benchmark.

Oxnard runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 13,003 students. Norman R. Brekke Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Norman R. Brekke Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (82%). The remainder looks like 10% Asian, 4% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Ventura County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 74% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Ventura County (around 59%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Norman R. Brekke Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.5%, the actual is 45.9%, a residual of +10.4 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Ventura County) reports 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%. Norman R. Brekke Elementary is one of 238 public schools in Ventura County (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students).

Pacifica High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Norman R. Brekke Elementary at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 23.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Norman R. Brekke Elementary has fell 3%, going from 601 students in 2018 to 585 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 25.0:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 in 2025.

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