Tierra Vista Elementary, Oxnard CA

Original Research by School Decision on Tierra Vista Elementary

Tierra Vista Elementary sits on Sanford Street in the 93033 zip code, on the south side of Oxnard, serving kindergarten through fifth grade within the Ocean View school district. The school draws from a neighborhood where the vast majority of families are Hispanic, and a substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, making this one of the more economically challenged student populations in the county. English learner data was not available in the records we reviewed, though given the community profile a parent would be reasonable to ask the school directly about language support services.

On state assessments, proficiency rates in both English language arts and math are low across the tested grades. In each subject, fewer than one in four students scored at or above proficiency on the CAASPP Smarter Balanced assessments in third, fourth, and fifth grade. Science results at the fifth-grade level are similarly limited. Placed against other districts in Ventura County, the school's overall proficiency index falls in the bottom quartile of the comparison set. These are the reported numbers; a parent who wants to understand what the school is doing to move them should ask staff directly, since the district brief we reviewed turned up no recent curriculum or instructional changes that clearly apply to this Oxnard campus rather than the separate, similarly named district in Orange County.

Trend data covers only a single year, so there is no multi-year arc to describe. That gap is worth naming because it means the picture here is a snapshot, not a trajectory.

The school sits in a part of Oxnard that is decidedly car-oriented. The walkable civic core of the city, anchored by Plaza Park, the Main Library, and the downtown transit hub connecting Metrolink, Amtrak, and local Gold Coast Transit routes, is not within easy walking distance of this address. The broader city is actively developing, with housing construction spread across multiple quadrants and a large proposed residential project taking shape in the northeast around the recently opened Del Sol High School. Whether that growth reaches the south side neighborhood around Tierra Vista in the near term is not clear from available planning documents.

Housing in the 93033 zip code sits well below the California statewide median home value, which gives families a more accessible entry point into Oxnard ownership than much of the coast, though even at that relative discount the monthly carrying cost of a purchase remains steep given current mortgage rates. Rents in the zip declined modestly year over year by the most recent data available, and the rent-to-income ratio locally runs at a level that would strain most households. For renters considering the neighborhood, affordability is real but tight.

Oxnard's largest employers span agriculture, manufacturing, and healthcare, with Haas Automation, Mission Produce, St. John's Regional Medical Center, and the Port of Hueneme all publicly reported as anchors of the local economy. The school district itself is among the city's notable institutional employers.

No program-specific information was available for Tierra Vista, so enrichment offerings, intervention structures, or any specialty tracks could not be described here. A graduation rate does not apply because the school serves only elementary grades. Chronic absenteeism data was also absent from the records reviewed.

For a family already rooted in south Oxnard, Tierra Vista is the neighborhood elementary. For a family weighing where to live, the academic performance picture is one they should engage with honestly, asking the school what support structures exist for students who arrive below grade level and what the trajectory has looked like in recent years.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 323%

School 23% · District 33% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 20 pts below state median · ▼ 18 pts below county median

Grade 426%

School 26% · District 24% · ▲ 2 pts above district

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

Grade 520%

School 20% · District 18% · ▲ 2 pts above district

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 319%

School 19% · District 29% · ▼ 11 pts below district

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

Grade 424%

School 24% · District 28% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 20 pts below county median

Grade 521%

School 21% · District 26% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▼ 24 pts below state median · ▼ 24 pts below county median

Science

Grade 519%

School 19% · District 21% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▼ 9 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

This schoolOcean View, 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 3Lower-income13%Higher-income33%20 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income20%Higher-income33%13 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income15%Higher-income41%26 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income13%Higher-income50%37 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income25%Higher-income29%4 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income12%Higher-income46%34 pp gap