Will Rogers Elementary

Will Rogers Elementary operates as an average-sized elementary school in Ventura, California, operated by Ventura Unified. Current enrollment sits at 426 students spanning grades K through 5.

Ventura Unified comprises 27 schools with combined enrollment of 14,346 students; Will Rogers Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Will Rogers Elementary records that 73% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 24% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Ventura County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Will Rogers Elementary reports 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 28.4:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 63% of students at Will Rogers Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Will Rogers Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.2%; this one delivers 38.7%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Ventura County) records that the typical household earns roughly $109,797 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Will Rogers Elementary is one of 238 public schools in Ventura County (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students).

Nearest neighbor: Ventura High, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Will Rogers Elementary. On composite proficiency, Will Rogers Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 47.9%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Will Rogers Elementary has declined 21%, going from 542 students in 2018 to 426 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged up from 19% to 24% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 24.3:1 in 2018 to 28.4:1 today.

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