Township Elementary

Township Elementary is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in Simi Valley, California, part of Simi Valley Unified, educateing 521 students in grades K through 6.

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

Demographically, Township Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 60% of enrollment; the rest consists of 30% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 43% of students at Township Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Ventura County's rate of about 59%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Township Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.8%, the actual is 46.3%, a residual of -7.5 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Ventura County indicate 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), Township Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Valley View Middle, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Township Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 41.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Township Elementary's enrollment has decreased 5% since 2018, when it stood at 549 (now 521). Class-load math has fell: from 26.8:1 in 2018 to 22.6:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.