Sycamore Elementary

Sycamore Elementary operates as a close-knit K-5 school in Simi Valley, California, one of the schools within Simi Valley Unified. Current enrollment sits at 359 students spanning grades K through 6. That puts it 23% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Sycamore Elementary is one of 27 schools operated by Simi Valley Unified, a district that educates 15,418 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sycamore Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 39% White, 6% Asian, 3% Black, 3% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Ventura County's rate of about 59%.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Sycamore Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 52.5%; actual is 36.7%, a gap of -15.7 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Ventura County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $109,797 per year, 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), Sycamore Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Apollo High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sycamore Elementary. On composite proficiency, Sycamore Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.0%.

Sycamore Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Sycamore Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 8% since 2018, when it stood at 390 (now 359). Over the same period, the White share declined from 44% to 39%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 24.4:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 today.

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