Tierra Linda Elementary

Set in Camarillo, California, Tierra Linda Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school, part of Pleasant Valley. It educates 502 students across grades K through 5.

Pleasant Valley comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 5,835 students; Tierra Linda Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Tierra Linda Elementary logs that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 31% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 6% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Tierra Linda Elementary has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.9:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 24% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Ventura County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Tierra Linda Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.0%, the actual is 71.4%, a residual of +6.3 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Ventura County) reports that median household income runs about $109,797, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Ventura County's 238 public schools (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students), Tierra Linda Elementary is one campus in the mix.

La Mariposa is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Tierra Linda Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Tierra Linda Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 57.2%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tierra Linda Elementary has shrank 22%, going from 647 students in 2018 to 502 in 2025.

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