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Westlake Hills Elementary
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores are down about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Westlake Hills Elementary
Westlake Hills Elementary is a primary school of compact scale in Westlake Village, California, one of the schools within Conejo Valley Unified, caters to 375 students in grades K through 5.
Conejo Valley Unified comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 15,713 students; Westlake Hills Elementary is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Westlake Hills Elementary shows that 57% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 25% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 7% Asian.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Westlake Hills Elementary has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Westlake Hills Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 19% of students at Westlake Hills Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Ventura County (around 59%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.
After controlling for student poverty, Westlake Hills Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.9%, the actual is 66.0%, a residual of -1.9 points.
Around the school, community-level numbers for Ventura County indicate median household earnings sit near $109,797, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Westlake Hills Elementary is one of 238 public schools in Ventura County (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students).
Nearest neighbor: Westlake High, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Westlake Hills Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 53.3%.
Geographically, the school is in an urban area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Westlake Hills Elementary has fell 25%, going from 502 students in 2018 to 375 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 17% to 25%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 23.9:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 today.
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