Olivelands Elementary

Olivelands Elementary is a compact elementary campus in Santa Paula, California, run under Briggs Elementary. The school teaches 236 students in grades K through 4. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Olivelands Elementary sits 49% below that benchmark.

Across the 2 schools in Briggs Elementary (457 students total), Olivelands Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Olivelands Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%). Beyond that, the school shows 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Olivelands Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.6%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Ventura County) shows that 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 Olivelands Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Briggs Elementary, roughly 2.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Olivelands Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Olivelands Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 31.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Olivelands Elementary's enrollment has fell 8% since 2018, when it stood at 257 (now 236).

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