Sheridan Way Elementary

Located at 573 Sheridan Way, in Ventura, California, Sheridan Way Elementary is a tight-knit primary school that educates 325 students (grades K through 5), part of Ventura Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Sheridan Way Elementary sits 30% below that benchmark.

Ventura Unified comprises 27 schools with combined enrollment of 14,346 students; Sheridan Way Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sheridan Way Elementary shows that 95% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder reads as 4% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Sheridan Way Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 94% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Ventura County's rate of about 59%.

After controlling for student poverty, Sheridan Way Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.4%; this one delivers 13.2%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Ventura County's 238 public schools (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students), Sheridan Way Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: E. P. Foster Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sheridan Way Elementary. On composite proficiency, Sheridan Way Elementary comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.7%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Sheridan Way Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 28% since 2018, when it stood at 450 (now 325).

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