Wood Ranch Elementary

Set in Simi Valley, California, Wood Ranch Elementary is an average-sized K-5 school, operated by Simi Valley Unified. It works with 452 students across grades K through 6.

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

In terms of who attends, Wood Ranch Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment. Other groups include 27% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 4% multiracial, 2% Black.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 31% of students at Wood Ranch Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Ventura County's rate of about 59%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Wood Ranch Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.9%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Ventura County) reports that median household income runs about $109,797, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Wood Ranch Elementary is one of 238 public schools in Ventura County (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students).

The closest other public school is Lang Ranch, roughly 1.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Wood Ranch Elementary. On composite proficiency, Wood Ranch Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 58.3%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 25%: 600 students in 2018 compared to 452 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 18% to 27%. Class-load math has fell: from 27.3:1 in 2018 to 25.1:1 in 2025.

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