Sycamore Canyon

As a sprawling elementary school in Newbury Park, California, Sycamore Canyon enrolls 937 students from grades K through 8, operated by Conejo Valley Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 102% above the state mean of about 465.

Conejo Valley Unified comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 15,713 students; Sycamore Canyon is among them.

On the student-mix side, Sycamore Canyon logs that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest is composed of 23% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Sycamore Canyon has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 5% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Ventura County's rate of about 59%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sycamore Canyon sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 76.3%; this one delivers 78.5%.

Zooming out to the county, Ventura County reports that median household income runs about $109,797, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Ventura County's 238 public schools (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students), Sycamore Canyon is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Cypress Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sycamore Canyon comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 60.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sycamore Canyon has ticked down 22%, going from 1,204 students in 2018 to 937 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 63% to 53% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.3:1 in 2018 to 22.8:1 today.

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