Ocean View Junior High

Set in Oxnard, California, Ocean View Junior High is a reasonably sized junior high, operated by Ocean View. It educates 700 students across grades 6 through 8.

Across the 18 schools in Ocean View (9,093 students total), Ocean View Junior High accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ocean View Junior High shows that nearly all students (92%) are Hispanic; the rest looks like 3% White, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Ocean View Junior High higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 76% of students at Ocean View Junior High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Ventura County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ocean View Junior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.2%, the actual is 20.3%, a residual of -13.9 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Ventura County shows the typical household earns roughly $109,797 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Ventura County runs 238 public schools (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students), of which Ocean View Junior High is one.

The closest other public school is Mar Vista Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ocean View Junior High at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 24.2%.

Ocean View Junior High operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ocean View Junior High has decreased 24%, going from 922 students in 2018 to 700 in 2025.

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