White Oak Elementary

As a low-enrollment elementary campus in Simi Valley, California, White Oak Elementary works with 352 students from grades K through 6, one of the schools within Simi Valley Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 24% below the state mean of about 465.

Simi Valley Unified runs 27 schools in total, collectively educating 15,418 students. White Oak Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, White Oak Elementary reports that 43% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 40% White, 10% Asian, 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Ventura County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, White Oak Elementary has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.5:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Ventura County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), White Oak Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.4%; this one delivers 49.2%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Ventura County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $109,797 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Ventura County's 238 public schools (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students), White Oak Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Knolls Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around White Oak Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts White Oak Elementary at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 38.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at White Oak Elementary has decreased 21%, going from 448 students in 2018 to 352 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 59% to 40% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 28.9:1 in 2018 to 23.5:1 today.

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