Huntington Seacliff Elementary

Set in Huntington Beach, California, Huntington Seacliff Elementary is a mid-tier elementary campus, overseen by Huntington Beach City Elementary. It hosts 495 students across grades K through 5.

Across the 8 schools in Huntington Beach City Elementary (4,560 students total), Huntington Seacliff Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Huntington Seacliff Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 23% Hispanic, 20% Asian, 15% multiracial. Compared to Orange County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

On the resource side, Huntington Seacliff Elementary shows 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 20% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Huntington Seacliff Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.6%, the actual is 78.5%, a residual of +10.9 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Orange County's 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), Huntington Seacliff Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Huntington Beach High, roughly 0.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Huntington Seacliff Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 58.2%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 29%: 697 students in 2018 compared to 495 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 14% to 23% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 27.9:1 in 2018 to 24.8:1 today.

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