Medea Creek Middle, Oak Park CA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Medea Creek Middle

Medea Creek Middle serves sixth through eighth grade in Oak Park, an essentially built-out master-planned community in southeastern Ventura County. The school sits within Oak Park Unified, a district that draws families from well beyond its own boundaries through a District of Choice program, meaning a substantial share of students arrive by lottery-based permit rather than residential assignment. A parent considering a move to Oak Park should know that living in the community does not automatically guarantee enrollment for a transfer student from outside it, and that roughly half the district's students have historically attended on interdistrict or District of Choice permits. A lawsuit brought by neighboring Las Virgenes Unified against the DOC program was voluntarily dismissed in mid-2025, but the episode is worth tracking if permit access matters to your family's planning.

On academic performance, Medea Creek posts results that place it in the top quartile among districts in Ventura County on an overall proficiency index across tested subjects and grades. That is a genuine strength. On California's Smarter Balanced assessments, ELA proficiency is strong across all three grade levels, with seventh grade reaching the highest mark and sixth and eighth grade performing closely behind it. Math tells a slightly different story: sixth and seventh grade proficiency rates are quite solid, while eighth grade dips noticeably. The eighth grade science result on the CAST sits in a similar range to eighth grade math. These patterns are worth asking the school about directly, since the eighth grade figures could reflect the natural difficulty of the content at that level, the particular composition of the cohort, or something in instructional approach, and the data alone does not say which.

Multi-year trend data is limited to a single year of results in the current dataset, so there is no trajectory to describe. Social studies assessment data in the file is from more than a decade ago and is not useful for current evaluation.

The student body is predominantly white and Asian, with Hispanic students making up a smaller share and Black students a very small one. A very modest share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the community's economic character. IEP and English learner data were not available in the data provided, so a parent of a student who may need special education services or language support should ask the school directly about those programs and staffing levels.

The community itself is low-density and residential in texture, built into the Simi Hills with preserved hillsides and open space that borders the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. There is no traditional downtown; daily life organizes around schools, parks, and a few neighborhood shopping centers. The Rancho Simi Recreation and Parks District maintains seven parks in Oak Park, and the community library sits at Mae Boyar Park on Kanan Road. Oak Park is now essentially built out, and home values here are well above the California statewide median and dramatically above the national median. Rents are also high relative to most of the country. The price-to-income ratio and rent-to-income figures suggest this is a demanding market for buyers and renters alike, and potential residents should factor that in carefully.

At the district level, curriculum changes are in motion. Oak Park Unified developed an ethnic studies pilot at the high school level through a senior seminar, but after the 2025-26 state budget was approved without AB 101 funding, the district announced that integration of ethnic studies content is indefinitely delayed. This does not affect middle school directly, but families with students moving toward high school may want to check the district's current plans.

Program detail for Medea Creek specifically was not available in the data, so what electives, enrichment, athletics, or advisory structures the school runs is something a parent would need to request from the school itself. The school's website is the right starting point for that, along with a visit to understand how the campus handles the transition into the high school pathway within Oak Park Unified.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 671%

School 71% · District 70% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 41 pts above state median · ▲ 39 pts above county median

Grade 779%

School 79% · District 78% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 48 pts above state median · ▲ 43 pts above county median

Grade 864%

School 64% · District 63% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 36 pts above state median · ▲ 31 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 679%

School 79% · District 78%

▲ 35 pts above state median · ▲ 37 pts above county median

Grade 784%

School 84% · District 83% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 39 pts above state median · ▲ 38 pts above county median

Grade 879%

School 79% · District 78% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 35 pts above state median · ▲ 37 pts above county median

Science

Grade 870%

School 70% · District 69% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 44 pts above state median · ▲ 37 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 883%

School 83% · District 82% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 34 pts above state median · ▲ 26 pts above county median

This schoolOak Park 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.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 6Lower-income64%Higher-income82%18 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income67%Higher-income86%19 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income65%Higher-income82%17 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income62%Higher-income74%12 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income47%Higher-income82%35 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income47%Higher-income68%21 pp gap