Tierra Vista Elementary

Tierra Vista Elementary is one of the mid-tier elementary-level communitys in Oxnard, California, part of Ocean View, with 560 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 20% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Ocean View, which oversees 18 schools and 9,093 students, Tierra Vista Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Tierra Vista Elementary reports that nearly all students (90%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 4% Asian, 3% White. By comparison, Ventura County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Tierra Vista Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 71% of students at Tierra Vista Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Ventura County (around 59%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Tierra Vista Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.9%; this one delivers 25.8%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Ventura County indicate median household earnings sit near $109,797, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Ventura County runs 238 public schools (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students), of which Tierra Vista Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Ocean View Junior High, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Tierra Vista Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 23.4%.

Tierra Vista Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 19%: 694 students in 2018 compared to 560 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.7:1 in 2018 to 23.8:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.