Weathersfield Elementary

Located at 3151 Darlington Dr., in Thousand Oaks, California, Weathersfield Elementary is a mid-sized elementary campus that serves 433 students (grades K through 5), part of Conejo Valley Unified.

Conejo Valley Unified runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 15,713 students. Weathersfield Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Weathersfield Elementary shows that White students make up the majority at 56%; the rest reads as 30% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 4% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.8:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 24% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Ventura County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Weathersfield Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.5%, the actual is 71.0%, a residual of +5.5 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Ventura County) reports that median household income runs about $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), Weathersfield Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Ladera STARS Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Weathersfield Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 64.2%.

Weathersfield Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Weathersfield Elementary's enrollment has increased 36% since 2018, when it stood at 318 (now 433). Hispanic enrollment moved from 35% to 30% across the same window.

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