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Nordhoff Jr. High

· Ventura County · Ojai Unified · Public

Public Ventura County 🏛 Ojai Unified → CDS 5672520…
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📋 At a glance

Programs & features
  • ✅ Gifted & talented program
Academic signals
  • 🎓 AP rigor: Bottom 14% of US high schools

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Nordhoff Jr. High compares for families

What families should know about Nordhoff Jr. High.

  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Nordhoff High School, El Camino High, Ventura Charter School Of Arts And Global Education and 2 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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SAT / ACT participation

CRDC federal data · 2020-21
SAT/ACT test-takers
0
11th-12th graders who took 1+ college admissions test

Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.

Chronic absenteeism — 2024-25

Share of students missing 10% or more of expected attendance — the leading indicator that often precedes the demand decline shown above. Families disengaging tend to raise absenteeism first, then formally leave. Basis: total enrollment.

Chronic absent
16.2%
45 of 277 students

Absenteeism is up 4.1 pp since 2016-17. A rising absenteeism trend often precedes formal departure — worth investigating which subgroups are driving it.

Ventura County median
16.9% · school is better than 53% of 58 HS
Statewide median
20.9%
Chronic absenteeism by year (raw %)

Source: California Department of Education, Chronic Absenteeism 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 eligible students. CDE didn't publish a usable 2019-20 file (COVID).

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment
411 (2018)291 (2026)
-29.2%

If this trend holds (-6.4%/yr, Total enrollment)

At per-pupil funding of $ / student:

Horizon Projected Total enrollment Change Funding impact / yr
1 yr (2027) ~272 -19 $0
3 yr (2029) ~238 -53 $0
5 yr (2031) ~209 -82 $0

Straight-line extrapolation of the recent annual rate — a what-if, not a forecast of intent. Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423/ADA). Edit the figure to match your school.

Nordhoff Jr. High — Enrollment & Outcomes Snapshot

Public · vs. 10 most similar nearby schools

  • At its recent rate (-4.2%/yr), enrollment projects to ~256 by 2029 — about 35 fewer students than today.

Enrollment projection

291 students (2026)
~256 projected (2029)
at -4.2%/yr

That's about 35 fewer students. At per-student funding of $ per student, that's roughly $0 in annual state funding at risk.

Default = California's LCFF base grant for grades 9–12 ($12,423 per ADA) — adjust to your district's actual per-pupil figure. Projection extrapolates the recent annual rate — not a forecast of intent.

Your school vs. its 10 most similar nearby schools

School Type Size UC Reach Enroll. trend
Nordhoff Jr. High Public 291
Peer-group median 16.5% -22%
Nordhoff High School Public 562 21.6% -24%
El Camino High Public 223 11.4% +10%
Ventura Charter School Of Arts And Global Education Public 461
Condor High School Public 347 -41%
Pacific High Public 192 +1%
Architecture, Construction & Engineering Charter High (ace) Public 269 +90%
Frontier High Public 265 -22%
Academy Of Technology & Leadership At Saticoy Public 446
Valley Oak Charter Public 107 -78%
De Anza Academy Of Technology And The Arts Public 536

UC Reach = top-6 UC admits ÷ senior class (can exceed 100% when students are admitted to multiple campuses). Enrollment trend = first-to-latest grade-12 change on file. Similar schools matched on proximity, size, type. Methodology →

Enrollment stability & demand — 2024-25

Two complementary signals: retention (do students stay once enrolled?) and demand (are families choosing the school?). Read against the Ventura County baseline — the demographic tide is moving every CA HS, so a school's gap vs. county is the actionable signal.

Stability rate
92.6%
262 of 283 students

21 of 283 students who enrolled at Nordhoff Jr. High this year didn't maintain continuous enrollment (7.4% non-stability). Mid-year transfers, dropouts, and other exits are all counted.

Ventura County median
90.4% · school is in the 61st percentile of 59 HS
Statewide median
88.7% · in the 74th percentile of 2,648 HS

Stability by student group

Socio. disadvantaged (157) 91.7%
White (145) 91.7%
Hispanic / Latino (119) 95.0%
Students w/ disabilities (41) 95.1%

Nearest peer high schools

Nordhoff High School 90.2% El Camino High 82.2% Ventura Charter School Of Arts And Global Education 97.0% Condor High School 37.8% Pacific High 60.5%

Source: California Department of Education, Stability Rate 2024-25. Benchmarks limited to non-virtual public & charter HS with ≥100 cumulative enrollees so by-design-high-churn continuation schools don't dominate the bottom of the distribution. Cumulative enrollment counts every student on the rolls during the year, so it can exceed peak-day enrollment.

District financial profile — Ojai Unified (FY2020)

From 4 years of NCES F-33 filings (the federally-mandated district finance survey). Public schools don't have their own books — the district does. These figures show the financial scale, revenue dependence, instruction-vs-overhead mix, and long-term debt that shape what a school can sustain.

Total revenue
$35.3M
+8.7% since FY2017
Per-pupil revenue
$15,161
2,329 students enrolled
Revenue mix
State: 30.0%
Local: 57.8%
Federal: 12.1%
Instruction share
48.1%
of current spending · $7,296/pupil
Long-term debt
$50.6M
+49.0% since FY2017
Total revenue by year ($M)
Total expenditure by year ($M)

Source: NCES F-33 Annual Survey of School System Finances (Urban Institute Education Data API). Latest year currently published: FY2020. F-33 is a district-level federal filing — it reflects the Ojai Unified as a whole, not this individual school's books. Revenue mix shows where the district's dollars come from (state aid dominates in CA via LCFF). Instruction share is current expenditure on instruction ÷ total current expenditure (national benchmark ~60%). Long-term debt is end-of-year outstanding (mostly facilities bonds).

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