Is Atherwood Elementary a good school?

Atherwood Elementary ranks 2318 th of 5862 California elementary schools. SchoolDigger rates this school 3 stars out of 5.

How many students attend Atherwood Elementary?

In the 2023-24 school year, 486 students attended Atherwood Elementary.

What is the racial makeup of Atherwood Elementary?

Students at Atherwood Elementary are 49% White, 35% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 6% Two or more races, 1% African American.

What schools do graduates of Atherwood Elementary attend?

Students who attend Atherwood Elementary usually go on to attend: Middle : Hillside Middle High : Simi Valley High

Atherwood Elementary

Summary:

Atherwood Elementary is a public elementary school in Simi Valley, California, serving 502 students in grades K-6. The school is part of the Simi Valley Unified School District, which is ranked 667 out of 1,568 districts in the state.

Atherwood Elementary has seen fluctuating statewide rankings, ranging from 335 out of 1,417 schools in 2020-2021 to 2,318 out of 5,862 schools in 2023-2024. The school's performance varies among different student groups, with female students outperforming males in English Language Arts, but Hispanic, White, special education, and low-income students performing lower than their peers. Chronic absenteeism has also been a significant issue, increasing from 4.2% in 2017-2018 to 19.0% in 2022-2023. Atherwood's proficiency rates in Smarter Balanced Assessments for English Language Arts and Mathematics are generally lower than the district and state averages, particularly in the upper grade levels.

Compared to nearby Hollow Hills Elementary and Vista Elementary, Atherwood's performance is generally lower, with lower statewide rankings and test scores. This may be influenced by Atherwood's higher proportion of students from low-income families, as well as a higher student-teacher ratio compared to the nearby schools in the district.

Detail:

Public K-6

2350 East Greensward St.
Simi Valley, CA 93065-1430

(805) 520-6730

District: Simi Valley Unified

SchoolDigger Rank:
2318^th of 5,862 California Elementary Schools

Per Pupil Expenditures: $5,500

Students who attend Atherwood Elementary usually attend:

Middle:	Hillside Middle
High:	Simi Valley High

Student/teacher ratio: 23.1

Number of students: 486

Racial breakdown:

White:

48.6%

Hispanic:

34.8%

Asian:

9.5%

Free/discounted lunch recipients: 35%

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Performance Trends

Compare Details Atherwood Elementary ranks better than 60.5% of elementary schools in California. It also ranks 11^th among 18 ranked elementary schools in the Simi Valley Unified School District. (See more...)

Compare Details In 2024 the calculated Average Standard Score was 54.36. (See more...)

Chronic absenteeism in a school refers to a situation where students repeatedly miss school, with the threshold often defined as missing 10% or more of school days for any reason, excused or unexcused.

Student Body

Compare Details Racial makeup is: White (48.6%), Hispanic (34.8%), Asian (9.5%). (See more...)

Compare Details 35% of students are receiving a free or discounted lunch. (See more...)

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Teachers

Compare Details The student/teacher ratio at Atherwood Elementary is 23.1, which is the 9^th best among 18 elementary schools in the Simi Valley Unified School District. (See more...)

Compare Atherwood Elementary employs 21 full-time teachers.

Finance

Compare Details The average total spent per student at Atherwood Elementary is $5,500. 16 elementary schools in the Simi Valley Unified School District spend more per student.

Schooldigger 2024 Rankings:

Atherwood Elementary:

SchoolDigger ranks Atherwood Elementary 2318^th of 5862 California public elementary schools. (See Atherwood Elementary in the ranking list.)

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Simi Valley Unified:

SchoolDigger ranks Simi Valley Unified 667^th of 1568 California school districts. (See district ranking list.)

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Rank History for Atherwood Elementary

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Rank History for all students at Atherwood Elementary

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	CA State Percentile
2004	80.92	861^st	4809	82.1%
2005	80.34	914^th	4822	81.0%
2006	81.37	901^st	4818	81.3%
2007	75.39	1155^th	5113	77.4%
2008	87.64	620^th	5113	87.9%
2009	84.56	778^th	5193	85.0%
2010	87.58	599^th	5314	88.7%
2011	83.03	846^th	5377	84.3%
2012	86.36	654^th	5390	87.9%
2013	86.72	665^th	5530	88.0%
2015	88.40	703^rd	5611	87.5%
2016	86.11	843^rd	5614	85.0%
2017	80.86	1094^th	5692	80.8%
2018	83.16	981^st	5662	82.7%
2019	75.71	1356^th	5789	76.6%
2021	74.51	335^th	1417	76.4%
2022	60.32	2014^th	5883	65.8%
2023	62.00	1956^th	5874	66.7%
2024	54.36	2318^th	5862	60.5%

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Rank History for Multi-racial students at Atherwood Elementary

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	CA State Percentile	SchoolDigger Rating
2019	67.78	149^th	445	66.5%

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Rank History for Special Education students at Atherwood Elementary

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	CA State Percentile	SchoolDigger Rating
2023	45.79	1023^rd	2420	57.7%
2024	37.97	1425^th	2634	45.9%

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Rank History for Low Socio Economic Status students at Atherwood Elementary

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	CA State Percentile
2018	68.24	1281^st	5084	74.8%
2019	72.46	1062^nd	5173	79.5%
2021	93.53	39^th	1110	96.5%
2022	64.30	1452^nd	5264	72.4%
2023	71.90	1128^th	5374	79.0%
2024	57.67	1927^th	5511	65.0%

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Rank History for Female students at Atherwood Elementary

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	CA State Percentile
2018	84.90	831^st	5413	84.6%
2019	77.03	1217^th	5492	77.8%
2021	79.07	244^th	1267	80.7%
2022	69.70	1530^th	5635	72.8%
2023	72.56	1398^th	5617	75.1%
2024	61.04	1909^th	5605	65.9%

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Rank History for Disabled students at Atherwood Elementary

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	CA State Percentile	SchoolDigger Rating
2022	48.80	835^th	2227	62.5%

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Rank History for Male students at Atherwood Elementary

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	CA State Percentile
2018	76.24	1219^th	5431	77.6%
2019	70.05	1516^th	5510	72.5%
2021	64.75	401^st	1272	68.5%
2022	51.99	2344^th	5663	58.6%
2023	50.77	2407^th	5650	57.4%
2024	47.20	2617^th	5636	53.6%

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Rank History for Hispanic students at Atherwood Elementary

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	CA State Percentile
2018	70.64	1114^th	4830	76.9%
2019	62.07	1574^th	4963	68.3%
2022	45.25	2498^th	5084	50.9%
2023	49.99	2230^th	5098	56.3%
2024	45.78	2557^th	5102	49.9%

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Rank History for White students at Atherwood Elementary

Year	Avg Standard Score	Statewide Rank	Total # Ranked Elementary Schools	CA State Percentile
2018	65.41	989^th	2737	63.9%
2019	54.32	1407^th	2834	50.4%
2022	41.24	1697^th	2726	37.7%
2023	41.80	1670^th	2662	37.3%
2024	30.03	1956^th	2647	26.1%

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Data source: test scores: California Department of Education, rankings: SchoolDigger.com

As you review the school rankings data, please be aware that some of the information from certain demographics is missing. The reason for this omission is that the data has been redacted from the source data itself due to low population samples in these specific demographic groups.

Redacting data from low population samples is a necessary step to ensure the reliability and accuracy of the results, as small sample sizes may not be representative of the broader population. Additionally, this measure helps protect the privacy of individuals belonging to these demographic groups.

Data source: California Department of Education

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by a parent
Friday, May 11, 2012

I am disgusted with this School. I have never seen such poor judgment. First off they have no crossing guards. The traffic is horrible with drop off and pick up. I was told the parents voted against a cross guard or traffic control, as a parent I do not remember voting for any such thing. This is very dangerous. The teacher I have is a complete scatter brain, very unorganized, with no structure. At first I thought it was just me, then I was talking with other parents who said the same. I had turned in my volunteer form, at the start of school, I ended up turning in 3 of them, for the school to turn around and tell me.. Oh we found your original one. The teacher tells me my kid is missing assignments, I was completely dumb founded to find the assignments in the class room. So this is very disturbing to me, when I am told my child is doing well, to see the grades have gone down 1/2 a score.
Now for the principal, I get a message from my child ... had to change their shoes... of course no other kid has had to, as I have observed the sandals on others plenty of times, and no PE what difference does it make. I take the shoes up to go back and give them to my kid, for the principal to say here I will take them back, there is Star Testing Make up going on and you will interrupt the class... WHAT.. and you wont? What difference does it make... he is a bit of a power player. I would not recommend this school... I dont even want to start on the fact that most kids who are enrolled travel from other areas, I thought there were boundary's. The PTA is worthless as well, they have out of boundary people doing the PTA. This school says it is a closed campus when in fact I have seen the campus open with the gardeners being there in the mornings when the kids are getting there. This is also unacceptable.... anyone can get on this campus. I have never seen such a poorly run school, and if you tell them they take it very personable and attack you and make excuses. I hope this helps some of you. I hope they get a new principal, they surely need one. Close Quote

Enrollment information for Atherwood Elementary

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Year	White	African American	Asian	Hispanic	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Not Specified	Total
1988	364	1	44	19	5	n/a	n/a	0	433
1989	387	4	28	10	1	n/a	n/a	0	430
1990	376	5	24	15	2	n/a	n/a	0	422
1991	359	6	24	13	3	n/a	n/a	0	405
1992	331	4	22	11	3	n/a	n/a	0	371
1993	310	3	22	20	3	n/a	n/a	0	358
1994	343	8	22	21	2	n/a	n/a	0	396
1995	363	5	36	32	6	n/a	n/a	0	442
1996	363	5	36	32	6	n/a	n/a	0	442
1997	360	8	32	40	4	n/a	n/a	0	444
1998	356	7	29	46	4	n/a	n/a	0	442
1999	365	11	26	37	7	n/a	n/a	0	446
2000	363	9	35	33	6	n/a	n/a	0	446
2001	381	8	36	33	5	n/a	n/a	0	463
2002	363	7	40	39	3	n/a	n/a	3	455
2003	363	7	40	39	3	n/a	n/a	3	455
2004	372	4	39	31	4	n/a	n/a	6	456
2005	308	5	36	35	4	n/a	n/a	7	395
2006	327	4	40	56	5	n/a	n/a	10	442
2007	345	6	54	68	4	n/a	n/a	18	495
2008	368	7	48	73	5	n/a	n/a	0	501
2009	354	13	55	70	3	1	25	0	521
2010	308	9	49	82	5	2	13	0	468
2011	359	12	82	121	2	1	17	0	594
2012	354	5	89	117	2	2	23	0	592
2013	335	5	75	110	1	3	34	0	563
2014	322	3	70	126	1	4	37	0	563
2015	307	7	69	117	1	1	34	0	536
2016	296	6	76	128	2	1	33	0	542
2017	265	5	76	128	3	0	44	0	521
2018	263	5	73	130	2	0	47	0	520
2019	282	6	68	128	2	0	50	0	536
2020	259	5	72	135	2	0	41	0	514
2021	249	6	75	128	1	0	42	0	501
2022	230	5	64	140	0	1	35	0	475
2023	247	5	58	157	0	1	34	0	502
2024	236	7	46	169	0	1	27	0	486

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Enrollment/Ethnicity

For more information about how the Department of Education defines ethnicity, see Defining Race and Ethnicity Data, National Center for Education Statistics

Students eligible for free or discounted lunch at Atherwood Elementary

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Year	# Students	Full-time Teachers	Student/Teacher ratio	% Free/Discounted Lunch
1988	433	15.0	28.8	n/a
1989	430	15.0	28.6	n/a
1990	422	15.0	28.1	n/a
1991	405	14.0	28.9	n/a
1992	371	14.2	26.1	6.5
1993	358	12.0	29.8	4.5
1994	396	13.0	30.5	8.3
1995	442	16.0	27.6	10.6
1996	442	16.0	27.6	10.6
1997	444	19.0	23.4	10.6
1998	442	19.0	23.3	6.3
1999	446	20.0	22.3	7
2000	446	22.0	20.3	7
2001	463	22.0	21.0	6.7
2002	455	21.0	21.7	4.2
2003	455	21.0	21.7	4.2
2004	456	20.5	22.2	6
2005	395	17.0	23.2	7.5
2006	442	19.0	23.3	10.9
2007	495	22.0	22.5	8
2008	501	25.0	20.0	6.8
2009	521	23.0	20.4	9.2
2010	468	22.0	21.2	14.3
2011	594	n/a	n/a	15.2
2012	592	23.0	25.7	n/a
2013	563	22.0	25.5	11.9
2014	563	21.0	26.8	14.9
2015	536	20.0	26.8	15.3
2016	542	20.0	27.1	14.9
2017	521	19.0	27.4	14.6
2018	520	19.0	27.3	17.3
2019	536	21.5	24.9	18.1
2020	514	n/a	n/a	19.1
2021	501	21.5	23.3	18.4
2022	475	22.0	21.5	34.1
2023	502	21.0	23.9	30.5
2024	486	21.0	23.1	35

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Students eligible for discounted/free lunch:

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provides low-cost or free meals to students in U.S. public and nonprofit private schools based on household income. Those with incomes below 130% of the poverty line receive free lunch, while those between 130% and 185% qualify for reduced-price lunch. The percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch serves as a marker for poverty, as it reflects the socioeconomic status of families in a given school or district. A higher FRPL rate typically indicates a higher concentration of low-income families, suggesting that the school or district may face additional challenges in providing adequate resources and support for student success.

Student/Teacher Ratio Atherwood Elementary

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Year	# Students	Full-time Teachers	Student/Teacher ratio	% Free/Discounted Lunch
1988	433	15.0	28.8	n/a
1989	430	15.0	28.6	n/a
1990	422	15.0	28.1	n/a
1991	405	14.0	28.9	n/a
1992	371	14.2	26.1	6.5
1993	358	12.0	29.8	4.5
1994	396	13.0	30.5	8.3
1995	442	16.0	27.6	10.6
1996	442	16.0	27.6	10.6
1997	444	19.0	23.4	10.6
1998	442	19.0	23.3	6.3
1999	446	20.0	22.3	7
2000	446	22.0	20.3	7
2001	463	22.0	21.0	6.7
2002	455	21.0	21.7	4.2
2003	455	21.0	21.7	4.2
2004	456	20.5	22.2	6
2005	395	17.0	23.2	7.5
2006	442	19.0	23.3	10.9
2007	495	22.0	22.5	8
2008	501	25.0	20.0	6.8
2009	521	23.0	20.4	9.2
2010	468	22.0	21.2	14.3
2011	594	n/a	n/a	15.2
2012	592	23.0	25.7	n/a
2013	563	22.0	25.5	11.9
2014	563	21.0	26.8	14.9
2015	536	20.0	26.8	15.3
2016	542	20.0	27.1	14.9
2017	521	19.0	27.4	14.6
2018	520	19.0	27.3	17.3
2019	536	21.5	24.9	18.1
2020	514	n/a	n/a	19.1
2021	501	21.5	23.3	18.4
2022	475	22.0	21.5	34.1
2023	502	21.0	23.9	30.5
2024	486	21.0	23.1	35

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Dept of Education.

About Student-Teacher Ratio

Student/teacher ratio is calculated by dividing the total number of students by the total number of full-time equivalent teachers. Please note that a smaller student/teacher ratio does not necessarily translate to smaller class size. In some instances, schools hire teachers part time, and some teachers are hired for specialized instruction with very small class sizes. These and other factors contribute to the student/teacher ratio. Note: For private schools, Student/teacher ratio may not include Pre-Kindergarten.

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