East Ventura News

Out of 18,380 students enrolled in Conejo Valley Unified School District, 8 percent were in eighth-grade during the 2018-2019 school year, according to the California Department of Education.

The grades with the highest concentration of students were ninth and 12th-grade, both with 9.6 percent of all students.

According to numbers provided by the National Center for Education Services, California is expected to see a decrease of three percent in public elementary and secondary school enrollment from 2017-2029. The state expected to see the largest drop in enrollment is New Mexico with a projected 12 percent decrease, while Washington D.C. is projected to see a 14 percent increase over the same time period.

In a survey conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, seven percent of respondents said large class sizes was the biggest issue facing California's K-12 schools. In the same survey, 50 percent of the respondents said they didn’t view the financial resources their local public school was getting as adequate.

Grade	Number of students	Total %
Kindergarten	1,373	7.5
First	1,055	5.7
Second	1,113	6.1
Third	1,183	6.4
Fourth	1,193	6.5
Fifth	1,212	6.6
Sixth	1,362	7.4
Seventh	1,442	7.8
Eighth	1,466	8
Ninth	1,763	9.6
10th	1,745	9.5
11th	1,710	9.3
12th	1,763	9.6