Thousand Oaks High

Thousand Oaks High, an expansive four-year high school in Thousand Oaks, California, part of Conejo Valley Unified, hosts 1,703 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 103% bigger than the state mean of about 838.

Conejo Valley Unified runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 15,713 students. Thousand Oaks High is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Thousand Oaks High records that the most-represented group is White (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 40% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial.

On the resource side, On paper, Thousand Oaks High has 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.2:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 24% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Ventura County's rate of about 59%.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Thousand Oaks High sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 65.3%; actual is 50.1%, a gap of -15.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Ventura County indicate median household earnings sit near $109,797, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), Thousand Oaks High is one campus in the mix.

Century Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Thousand Oaks High at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 54.1%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Thousand Oaks High's enrollment has decreased 23% since 2018, when it stood at 2,206 (now 1,703). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 58% to 45%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 24.5:1 in 2018 to 21.2:1 in 2025.

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