Enrollment
259
Elementary
DISTRICT 400 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CONEJO VALLEY UNIFIED·NCES 060964001027
Walnut Elementary
581 Dena Dr., Newbury Park, CA 91320 · (805) 498-3608 · Ventura County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL259 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 79% of California public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- AThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.4:1
14 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.9:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
141 students
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 50 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 39 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 41 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 36 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 45 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 11% larger than its 5th grade class (45).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
55.9%
CA avg 49.1% . +11.9pp since 2014
Math
59.1%
CA avg 37.7% . +20.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 12 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 20 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 27.6% | 28.4% | 28.4% | 15.8% |
| Math | 26.8% | 32.3% | 29.1% | 11.8% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.9% | 59.1% |
| 2023-24 | 46.3% | 54.1% |
| 2022-23 | 51.1% | 46.6% |
| 2021-22 | 45.0% | 48.8% |
| 2018-19 | 46.1% | 36.5% |
| 2017-18 | 51.9% | 39.3% |
| 2016-17 | 58.8% | 38.5% |
| 2015-16 | 51.0% | 41.0% |
| 2014-15 | 44.0% | 39.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
53.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.6%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Walnut Elementary
Walnut Elementary's state test result (53.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walnut Elementary this school | 259 | 54.4% | 53.8% |
| Hope Elementary Porterville | 237 | 55.3% | 52.7% |
| Beresford Elementary San Mateo | 218 | 58.7% | 42.2% |
| La Pluma Elementary La Mirada | 284 | 55.6% | 45.9% |
| John Foster Dulles Elementary La Mirada | 250 | 56.4% | 43.8% |
| Jack London Elementary Santa Rosa | 258 | 60.1% | 30.6% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Walnut Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Ventura County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.8% | #1,466 of 5,151 | #31 of 121 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.1% | #1,113 of 5,172 ▲ 167 | #22 of 122 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.9% | #1,616 of 5,172 ▲ 550 | #39 of 122 ▲ 12 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +10.6pp | #530 of 5,116 | #14 of 121 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 259 | #5,070 of 5,915 | #117 of 130 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.4:1 | #368 of 5,352 | #11 of 124 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.0% | #2,332 of 5,354 | #50 of 124 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.4% | #3,720 of 5,625 | #75 of 127 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.3% | #1,278 of 3,837 | #36 of 99 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
259
-25 (-9%) vs 2020
-45% since 1990-91, when it was 472
Student : Teacher
18.4:1
was 28.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 259 | 14.1 | 18.4:1 | 54% (141) |
| 2023-24 | 269 | 13.1 | 20.6:1 | 52% (140) |
| 2022-23 | 286 | 15.1 | 19.0:1 | 55% (156) |
| 2020-21 | 284 | 10 | 28.4:1 | 44% (125) |
| 2017-18 | 329 | 15 | 21.9:1 | 47% (153) |
| 2015-16 | 336 | 14 | 24.0:1 | 46% (155) |
| 2010-11 | 364 | N/A | N/A | 38% (139) |
| 2000-01 | 522 | 25 | 20.9:1 | 24% (126) |
| 1990-91 | 472 | 19 | 24.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Walnut Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (329 to 259); teachers down 6% (15 to 14.1).
About Walnut Elementary
Walnut Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school in Newbury Park, California. It offers kindergarten through 5 and has 259 students enrolled. It has 44% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in California (about 465).
Conejo Valley Unified operates 26 schools. Combined enrollment is 15,713 students.
The largest group at Walnut Elementary is Hispanic students, at 62%. Other students are 24% White, 8% Asian, and 5% multiracial. By comparison, Ventura County residents are about 44% Hispanic. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 55%.
On staff are 14.1 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 18.4:1. Statewide, elementary schools in California average 22.3:1. Walnut Elementary has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 54%.
On the allk12 Grade, Walnut Elementary lands at A-, ahead of 79% of California public elementary schools.
After adjusting for student poverty, Walnut Elementary lands between the top and bottom 10% of California schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 53.8%; the prediction is 47.6%.
In the surrounding county, Ventura County, median household income comes to about $109,797, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. The county's public schools total 238, with about 147,841 students.
Among nearby public schools, Newbury Park High is closest at about 0.3 miles. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Walnut Elementary is 6th on average proficiency.
Federal data place Walnut Elementary in the Suburb: Mid-size locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Walnut Elementary had a net loss of 25 students, or 9%. By 2024-25, the school had 18.4 students per teacher, compared with 28.4 in 2020-21.
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Ventura County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
837,469
Census ACS
Median income
$109,797
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
238
147,841 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Conejo Valley Unified
- Newbury Park HighHigh · 2,047 students
- Westlake HighHigh · 1,900 students
- Thousand Oaks HighHigh · 1,703 students
- Sycamore CanyonElementary · 937 students
- Colina MiddleMiddle · 832 students
- Sequoia MiddleMiddle · 798 students
Other schools in Newbury Park
- Newbury Park HighHigh · 2,047 students
- Sycamore CanyonElementary · 937 students
- Sequoia MiddleMiddle · 798 students
- Env Acad of Research Tech and Earth ScisElementary · 539 students
- Banyan ElementaryElementary · 416 students
- Cypress ElementaryElementary · 325 students
Other Walnut Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 5 states are named Walnut Elementary. Walnut Elementary is the 6th largest of the 8.
- Walnut ElementaryWalnut, CA · 706 students
- Walnut ElementaryBaldwin Park, CA · 541 students
- Walnut ElementaryLa Habra, CA · 446 students
- Walnut Elementary SchoolAshville, OH · 469 students
- Walnut ElemEmporia, KS · 312 students
Nearby schools
- Newbury Park High0.3 mi · 2,047
- Sequoia Middle0.7 mi · 798
- Env Acad of Research Tech and Earth Scis0.8 mi · 539
- Maple Elementary0.9 mi · 181
- Cypress Elementary1.5 mi · 325
- Sycamore Canyon1.8 mi · 937
Frequently asked questions
About Walnut ElementaryHow many students attend Walnut Elementary?
Walnut Elementary enrolls approximately 259 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Walnut Elementary serve?
Walnut Elementary serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Walnut Elementary have?
Walnut Elementary employs 14 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 18.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Walnut Elementary?
Student demographics at Walnut Elementary are roughly 24% White, 62% Hispanic, 1% Black, 8% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Walnut Elementary?
Walnut Elementary is overseen by Conejo Valley Unified in Ventura County.
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