Ramona Elementary

Ramona Elementary is a primary school of moderately sized scale in Oxnard, California, operated by Oxnard, enrolling 568 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 22% above typical.

Oxnard comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 13,003 students; Ramona Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Ramona Elementary records that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 97% of students at Ramona Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Ventura County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Ramona Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 21.5%; this one delivers 11.1%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Ventura County) logs that median household earnings sit near $109,797, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Ventura County's 238 public schools (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students), Ramona Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Ramona Elementary comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Looking at the recent track record. Ramona Elementary's enrollment has contracted 5% since 2018, when it stood at 598 (now 568). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 26.0:1 in 2018 to 23.2:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Ramona Elementary community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.