Rio Vista Middle

Located at 3050 Thames River Dr., in Oxnard, California, Rio Vista Middle is a reasonably sized 6-8 campus that enrolls 637 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by Rio Elementary.

Rio Vista Middle is one of 9 schools operated by Rio Elementary, a district that hosts 5,250 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Rio Vista Middle reports that 86% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 5% White, 4% Asian, 2% Black. 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, Rio Vista Middle shows 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.4:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 65% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rio Vista Middle falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 40.7%; this one comes in at 22.7%, -18.0 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, Ventura County reports 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%. Rio Vista Middle is one of 238 public schools in Ventura County (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students).

The closest other public school is Rio Del Mar, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Rio Vista Middle comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 28.7%.

Rio Vista Middle operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Rio Vista Middle's enrollment has declined 20% since 2018, when it stood at 796 (now 637).

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