Why the high schools in Oxnard so overcrowded? (Camarillo, Pacifica: house, purchase)

[the city]

Why are the high schools in Oxnard so crowded? Do they have plans to build a new high school in Oxnard soon?

I see Camarillo is building a new school called Rancho Campana and Adolfo Camarillo High School has a good API index score.

[OxnardNative]

They've narrowed the list down to two spots to build a new high school in a similar fashion as Rancho Campana. Or they will try to use the Performing Arts Center as a "high school".

[volosong]

Originally Posted by the city

Why are the high schools in Oxnard so crowded?..

The Oxnard city fathers, (city council), are very, very pro-growth and the population has been exploding the past ten-twenty years. The infrastructure has not kept up with the rate of population growth.

[SOON2BNSURPRISE]

First off lets talk about the district. The Oxnard High School District comprises the cities and land within the Oxnard plain. It is not an entity of the City of Oxnard. Camarillo High School, Rio Mesa High School, and the soon to open Rancho Campana High School, as well as Frontier High School are all in the Oxnard High School District, even though they are not in the City of Oxnard.

It can take years to get a new high school built. The planning stage can take 5 or 6 years. The state has to approve it and that can take another 1 to 1 and a half years. Money is always an issue and finding out where the dollars will come from to finance the purchase of land and construction cost can take time.

The idea had been pushed to build smaller schools. The first of these in the Oxnard High School District is Rancho Campana in Camarillo. The District will also be building two more of these smaller size schools in the City of Oxnard. These smaller schools will have an enrollment of about 700 kids with the ability to house 1,000 kids.

Realize that when I was a kids, in High School, the only school that the district did not have was Pacifica and the new smaller schools. I went to Hueneme. At the time the district included Camarillo High, Oxnard High, Rio Mesa High, Hueneme High, Channel Islands High, and Frontier. I can tell you back then we didn't have the 200,000 plus people that Oxnard has now. Camarillo was probably half as large as it is now. Same schools but a lot more people. I would bet that the district could use another couple full size High schools in the area. Then again they may be figuring that the growth years are over for having kids and the smaller schools will be easier to close down 30 or 40 years from now. Who knows. All I know is that Oxnard is far from done growing. I would bet that in 25 years we will have 300,000 or more people here.