Portola Elementary

Set in Ventura, California, Portola Elementary is a reasonably sized primary school, part of Ventura Unified. It hosts 444 students across grades K through 5.

Ventura Unified comprises 27 schools with combined enrollment of 14,346 students; Portola Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Portola Elementary shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 58%. Other groups include 27% White, 7% Asian, 5% multiracial, 2% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the income-and-resources front, Portola Elementary records 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 26.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Ventura County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Portola Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 37.6%; actual is 55.1%, +17.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, Ventura County reports that median household earnings sit near $109,797, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Ventura County's 238 public schools (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students), Portola Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Montalvo Elementary, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Portola Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 43.2%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Looking at the recent track record. Portola Elementary's enrollment has contracted 22% since 2018, when it stood at 568 (now 444). Hispanic enrollment moved from 62% to 58% across the same window.

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