Conejo Academy of Leadership and Language Immersion, Thousand Oaks CA

Original Research by School Decision on Conejo Academy of Leadership and Language Immersion

Conejo Academy of Leadership and Language Immersion is a small elementary school in Thousand Oaks serving kindergarten through fifth grade. The school sits in a suburban residential community in the Conejo Valley, part of Conejo Valley Unified School District, and draws students primarily from the surrounding neighborhood.

The school's enrollment is small, around a quarter-thousand students, with meaningful enrollment in each grade. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The student body is predominantly Hispanic, with a smaller white population and limited racial diversity otherwise. The school name reflects a dual-immersion or multilingual mission, though specific program details were not available in the data.

Academic performance on California's state assessments is weak across grades tested. In English language arts, proficiency rates range from low to mid-range across the grade levels, with third grade at the lower end. Mathematics shows steeper challenges, with proficiency declining as grades rise, particularly in fifth grade where it drops considerably. Fifth-grade science proficiency mirrors the math result. When proficiency results are combined across all tested subjects and grades, the school's overall performance places it in the bottom quartile among schools in Ventura County that have comparable data.

The school has one year of test data; no trend is available to show whether results are moving or stable. A parent may want to reach out to the school directly to understand whether recent curriculum changes, staff additions, or program adjustments are underway that could affect these trajectories going forward.

The broader context matters for families considering this school. Thousand Oaks is a planned, car-oriented suburb between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, surrounded by oak woodlands and parks. The community has a substantial employment base, anchored by the biopharmaceutical firm Amgen and California Lutheran University. The area is in transition: long known as slow-growth, the city is now adding multifamily housing to meet state mandates, with mixed-use and affordable-housing projects moving forward.

Housing values in the zip code are well above state and national medians, and rents are rising modestly. Ownership carries a high price-to-income ratio relative to the nation, and monthly rent represents a substantial share of household income. Families considering the area should factor in the cost structure.

At the district level, Conejo Valley Unified has adopted an ethnic studies course that becomes a graduation requirement for the class of 2030, reflecting state law. The district also faces ongoing litigation over the age-appropriateness of health education and instructional materials, a contested curriculum issue that has remained active through appellate proceedings.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 331%

School 31% · District 70% · ▼ 39 pts below district

▼ 12 pts below state median · ▼ 11 pts below county median

Grade 424%

School 24% · District 66% · ▼ 42 pts below district

▼ 13 pts below state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Grade 514%

School 14% · District 59% · ▼ 45 pts below district

▼ 17 pts below state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 326%

School 26% · District 64% · ▼ 39 pts below district

▼ 15 pts below state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

Grade 438%

School 38% · District 70% · ▼ 32 pts below district

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 524%

School 24% · District 72% · ▼ 48 pts below district

▼ 21 pts below state median · ▼ 21 pts below county median

Science

Grade 524%

School 24% · District 57% · ▼ 33 pts below district

▼ 4 pts below state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

This schoolConejo Valley Unified, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.