Hueneme Elementary

As a compact elementary school in Port Hueneme, California, Hueneme Elementary teaches 329 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Hueneme Elementary. Enrollment runs roughly 29% smaller than the state mean of about 465.

Hueneme Elementary comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 6,678 students; Hueneme Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hueneme Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 77% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 44% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Hueneme Elementary has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Ventura County (around 59%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Hueneme Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.0%, the actual is 23.0%, a residual of -13.0 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Ventura County indicate the typical household earns roughly $109,797 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Ventura County runs 238 public schools (combined enrollment of about 147,841 students), of which Hueneme Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Richard Bard Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hueneme Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 21.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 15%: 388 students in 2018 compared to 329 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 in 2025.

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