Original Research by School Decision on Conejo Valley High (continuation)
Conejo Valley High (Continuation) is a small alternative school serving grades eleven and twelve in Thousand Oaks. It functions as a continuation high school, designed for students who are not on track at traditional comprehensive high schools and need a different setting to complete their diploma.
The school's enrollment is concentrated in the final two grades, with about two-thirds of students in grade twelve and the remainder in grade eleven. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The student body is predominantly Hispanic, with a meaningful White population and very small numbers of other racial and ethnic groups.
State testing results show proficiency rates well below the statewide baseline across all subjects. English language arts proficiency was in the single digits; mathematics and science proficiency were close to zero. These figures reflect what continuation schools typically serve: students with significant academic gaps, attendance or behavioral barriers, or personal circumstances that interrupted their secondary education. A parent may want to look into further detail with the school about what academic supports, remedial coursework, or credit-recovery pathways it offers to help students move toward graduation. The comparison group for state performance relative to other Ventura County districts could not be calculated because the school's proficiency rates sit outside the typical range used for district-level benchmarking.
No graduation rate was reported. Schools that serve primarily twelfth-graders and function as alternative or credit-recovery settings often fall outside the standard four-year graduation cohort measurement, so the absence of this metric reflects the school's role rather than a data gap.
The school is not a charter or magnet school, and no information was available about special education identification rates, English learner enrollment, staffing levels, attendance patterns, or extracurricular programming. The school's website was not provided in the available data.
Thousand Oaks is a residential suburb in the Conejo Valley between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, characterized by knolls, mountains, and oak woodlands. It was developed largely as a planned community and has long been known for slow growth and single-family residential character. The city is now adding multifamily housing and mixed-use development to meet state-mandated housing targets, with multiple projects under way or in planning stages. Housing costs in the area are substantial; median home values are significantly above state benchmarks. The community is car-oriented with minimal walkability, though the city is working to develop a downtown around the Civic Arts Plaza on Thousand Oaks Boulevard with more connected, walkable retail and residential uses.
Major employers include Amgen, a global biopharmaceutical company headquartered there, California Lutheran University, Los Robles Hospital, and various high-tech and aerospace firms. The local economy is relatively stable. Parks and open space are extensive, managed by the Conejo Recreation and Park District and the Conejo Open Space Conservation Agency, with over fifty community parks and more than two thousand acres of open space and trails.
Conejo Valley Unified School District, which operates this school, has adopted a one-semester ethnic studies course that becomes a requirement for graduation starting with the class of 2030. The district is also the subject of an ongoing lawsuit filed by parents alleging that health and sex education materials were not age-appropriate and lacked proper parental notification; the case was active through appellate proceedings in 2025 and remains a contested local issue. The district joined national litigation against social media companies in 2023 over alleged harm to student mental health.
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