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Santa Rosa Technology Magnet
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 Santa Rosa Technology Magnet
Santa Rosa Technology Magnet operates as a reasonably sized elementary campus in Camarillo, California, one of the schools within Pleasant Valley. Current enrollment sits at 450 students spanning grades K through 8.
Pleasant Valley runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 5,835 students. Santa Rosa Technology Magnet is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Santa Rosa Technology Magnet lists that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 23% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 10% multiracial, 3% Black. Compared to Ventura County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the resource side, On paper, Santa Rosa Technology Magnet has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 20% of students at Santa Rosa Technology Magnet qualify 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 meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Santa Rosa Technology Magnet performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.9%, the actual is 74.1%, a residual of +6.3 points.
Around the school, Ventura County reports that the typical household earns roughly $109,797 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Santa Rosa Technology Magnet is one of 238 public schools in Ventura County (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students).
The closest other public school is Weathersfield Elementary, roughly 1.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Santa Rosa Technology Magnet comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 59.7%.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Santa Rosa Technology Magnet's enrollment has shrank 21% since 2018, when it stood at 567 (now 450). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 64% to 51%. Class-load math has grew: from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 23.0:1 in 2025.
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