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Willow Elementary
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 Willow Elementary
Willow Elementary is an average-sized K-5 school in Agoura, California, one of the schools within Las Virgenes Unified. The school instructs 510 students in grades K through 5.
Willow Elementary is one of 15 schools operated by Las Virgenes Unified, a district that caters to 9,754 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Willow Elementary lists that 73% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 14% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 31% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 18% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Los Angeles County's rate of about 70%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Willow Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.8%, the actual is 75.2%, a residual of +6.3 points.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) records that the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Willow Elementary is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Mariposa School of Global Education, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Willow Elementary at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 68.9%.
Willow Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Willow Elementary has declined 17%, going from 617 students in 2018 to 510 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share contracted from 11% to 4%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 21.7:1 in 2018 to 25.9:1 today.
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