Valley Oak Charter

As a tiny unified-grade school in Ojai, California, Valley Oak Charter instructs 75 students from grades K through 12, one of the schools within Valley Oak Charter District. Enrollment runs roughly 88% below the state mean of about 602.

Operationally, Valley Oak Charter answers to Valley Oak Charter District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On the student-mix side, Valley Oak Charter reports that White students make up the majority at 57%; the rest breaks down as 33% Hispanic, 7% multiracial.

On the resource side, Valley Oak Charter lists 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.6:1 average. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Ventura County's rate of about 59%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Ventura County) reports that median household earnings sit near $109,797, 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), Valley Oak Charter is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mira Monte Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Valley Oak Charter.

The campus sits in a residential setting. Valley Oak Charter is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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