Red Oak Elementary

Located at 4857 Rockfield St., in Oak Park, California, Red Oak Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school that teaches 569 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Oak Park Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Red Oak Elementary sits 22% larger than that benchmark.

Red Oak Elementary is one of 7 schools operated by Oak Park Unified, a district that educates 4,437 students overall.

Demographically, Red Oak Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 33% Asian, 11% multiracial, 10% Hispanic.

In terms of school funding signals, Red Oak Elementary shows 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Red Oak Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 12% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Ventura County's rate of about 59%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Red Oak Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 72.6%; this one delivers 81.1%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Ventura County indicate median household income runs about $109,797, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Red Oak Elementary is one.

Oak Hills Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Red Oak Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 73.7%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 575 students in 2018 compared to 569 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 26.1:1 in 2018 to 24.8:1 in 2025.

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