Vista Elementary

Vista Elementary is an elementary-level community of mid-tier scale in Simi Valley, California, overseen by Simi Valley Unified, enrolling 567 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Vista Elementary sits 22% above that benchmark.

Within Simi Valley Unified, which oversees 27 schools and 15,418 students, Vista Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Vista Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 28% Hispanic, 27% Asian, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 52% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Vista Elementary records 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Ventura County's rate of about 59%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Vista Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.6%; this one delivers 72.5%.

In the area at large, 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), Vista Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Justin Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Vista Elementary. On composite proficiency, Vista Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.2%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Vista Elementary's enrollment has fell 17% since 2018, when it stood at 680 (now 567). Hispanic enrollment moved from 21% to 28% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 28.4:1 in 2018 to 23.6:1 today.

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