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Redwood Middle
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Redwood Middle
Located at 233 West Gainsborough Rd., in Thousand Oaks, California, Redwood Middle is a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school that hosts 589 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by Conejo Valley Unified.
Across the 26 schools in Conejo Valley Unified (15,713 students total), Redwood Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Redwood Middle lists that the largest single group is White at 47%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 39% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian.
In terms of school funding signals, Redwood Middle logs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Redwood Middle higher than the state norm the norm. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Ventura County's rate of about 59%.
After controlling for student poverty, Redwood Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.1%, the actual is 56.2%, a residual of -6.9 points.
In the area at large, census data for Ventura County shows the typical household earns roughly $109,797 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Redwood Middle is one of 238 public schools in Ventura County (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students).
Aspen Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Redwood Middle at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 50.9%.
Redwood Middle operates from a metropolitan location.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Redwood Middle has fell 32%, going from 870 students in 2018 to 589 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 29% to 39% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 23.8:1 in 2018 to 22.4:1 today.
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