Lake View Elementary

Lake View Elementary operates as a cozy K-5 school in Huntington Beach, California, run under Ocean View. Current enrollment sits at 361 students spanning grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 22% leaner than typical.

Lake View Elementary is one of 18 schools operated by Ocean View, a district that teaches 9,093 students overall.

On demographics, Lake View Elementary records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 24% White, 13% Asian, 8% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 71% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lake View Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.4%, the actual is 51.1%, a residual of +13.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Orange County shows the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, roughly 44% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Lake View Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Nearest neighbor: Tamura (Hisamatsu) Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lake View Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 55.3%.

Lake View Elementary operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 6%: 385 students in 2018 compared to 361 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 31% to 24%.

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