Enrollment
339
Elementary
DISTRICT 405 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NEWPORT-MESA UNIFIED·NCES 062724004123
Newport Elementary
1327 West Balboa Blvd., Newport Beach, CA 92661 · (949) 515-6965 · Orange County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL339 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 78% of California public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.4:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.4:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
67 students
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 57 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 42 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 44 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 45 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 53 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 8% larger than its 6th grade class (53).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
74.2%
CA avg 49.1% . +6.2pp since 2014
Math
66.5%
CA avg 37.7% . +0.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 44.5% | 29.7% | 13.7% | 12.1% |
| Math | 37.4% | 29.1% | 22.0% | 11.5% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.2% | 66.5% |
| 2023-24 | 76.9% | 74.4% |
| 2022-23 | 72.2% | 66.1% |
| 2021-22 | 72.7% | 70.0% |
| 2020-21 | N/A | 69.0% |
| 2018-19 | 77.8% | 76.1% |
| 2017-18 | 77.9% | 68.3% |
| 2016-17 | 71.2% | 70.0% |
| 2015-16 | 70.0% | 70.0% |
| 2014-15 | 68.0% | 66.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
73.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.0%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Newport Elementary
Newport Elementary's state test result (73.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Newport Elementary this school | 339 | 19.8% | 73.1% |
| Newcastle Charter Newcastle | 333 | 18.3% | 63.5% |
| Yerba Buena Elementary Agoura Hills | 372 | 22.6% | 69.5% |
| Grant Elementary Petaluma | 386 | 18.4% | 68.1% |
| Solana Vista Elementary Solana Beach | 317 | 22.7% | 74.1% |
| Glenwood Elementary San Rafael | 315 | 23.5% | 66.0% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Newport Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Orange County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.1% | #511 of 5,151 | #76 of 381 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.5% | #757 of 5,172 ▼ 316 | #115 of 382 ▼ 50 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.2% | #532 of 5,172 ▼ 154 | #87 of 382 ▼ 27 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.0pp | #1,492 of 5,116 | #110 of 381 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 339 | #4,384 of 5,915 | #343 of 404 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.4:1 | #701 of 5,352 | #30 of 398 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.4% | #2,811 of 5,354 | #232 of 398 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.8% | #5,159 of 5,625 | #358 of 400 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.6% | #723 of 3,837 | #74 of 324 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
339
+31 (+10%) vs 2020
-18% since 1990-91, when it was 414
Student : Teacher
19.4:1
was 20.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 339 | 17.4 | 19.4:1 | 20% (67) |
| 2023-24 | 331 | 17.4 | 19.0:1 | 25% (84) |
| 2022-23 | 313 | 16.5 | 18.9:1 | 26% (82) |
| 2020-21 | 308 | 15 | 20.5:1 | 19% (57) |
| 2017-18 | 468 | 19 | 24.6:1 | 14% (66) |
| 2015-16 | 486 | 20 | 24.3:1 | 15% (72) |
| 2010-11 | 429 | N/A | N/A | 17% (74) |
| 2000-01 | 541 | 27 | 20.0:1 | 6% (33) |
| 1990-91 | 414 | 17 | 24.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Newport Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 28% (468 to 339); teachers down 8% (19 to 17.4).
About Newport Elementary
Newport Elementary is one of the public schools in Newport Beach, California. It is a small elementary school. Its grade span covers kindergarten through 6, with 339 students on the rolls. Elementary schools in California average about 465 students, which makes this school 27% below average.
Newport Elementary is in Newport-Mesa Unified, a district with 17,540 students across 31 schools.
The share of White students at Newport Elementary is 68%, a majority. Smaller groups are 15% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, and 4% Asian. For comparison, the population of Orange County is roughly 43% White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 49%.
Newport Elementary lists 17.4 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 19.4 students per teacher. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in California is 22.3:1. About 20% of students at Newport Elementary are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 35 points below the 55% average for public schools in Orange County.
On the allk12 Grade, Newport Elementary lands at A-, ahead of 78% of California public elementary schools.
Compared with California schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Newport Elementary's results are 5.2 points above predicted: 73.1% against 68.0%.
The county, Orange County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $116,289 a year, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Newport Elementary, Orange County has 649 public schools.
Of the public schools around it, Newport Elementary is closest to Horace Ensign Intermediate, about 0.9 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 60.6%; Newport Elementary's is 73.1%, ranking 2nd of 7.
Its NCES locale code is City: Small: the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
From 308 students in 2020-21, enrollment rose to 339 by 2024-25. Students per teacher dropped from 20.5 in 2020-21 to 19.4 in 2024-25.
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Orange County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
3,165,820
Census ACS
Median income
$116,289
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
44%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
649
430,458 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Newport-Mesa Unified
- Corona del Mar HighHigh · 2,106 students
- Newport Harbor HighHigh · 2,084 students
- Costa Mesa HighHigh · 1,730 students
- Estancia HighHigh · 976 students
- Horace Ensign IntermediateMiddle · 875 students
- Mariners ElementaryElementary · 573 students
Other schools in Newport Beach
- Corona del Mar HighHigh · 2,106 students
- Newport Harbor HighHigh · 2,084 students
- Suncoast Preparatory AcademyCombined · 1,459 students
- Horace Ensign IntermediateMiddle · 875 students
- Mariners ElementaryElementary · 573 students
- Newport Heights ElementaryElementary · 502 students
Other Newport Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 8 states are named Newport Elementary. Newport Elementary is the 5th largest of the 8.
- Newport Elementary SchoolCROSBY, TX · 701 students
- NEWPORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLNEWPORT, AR · 691 students
- Newport ElementaryNewport, NC · 621 students
- Newport Elementary SchoolNewport, PA · 436 students
- NEWPORT ELEMENTARYNEWPORT, MN · 264 students
Nearby schools
- Horace Ensign Intermediate0.9 mi · 875
- Newport Harbor High1.3 mi · 2,084
- Newport Heights Elementary1.5 mi · 502
- International School for Science and Culture1.9 mi · 97
- Mariners Elementary1.9 mi · 573
- Woodland Elementary2.6 mi · 487
Frequently asked questions
About Newport ElementaryHow large is Newport Elementary?
Newport Elementary enrolls approximately 339 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Newport Elementary serve?
Newport Elementary serves grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Newport Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Newport Elementary is approximately 19.4:1 (17 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Newport Elementary?
Student demographics at Newport Elementary are roughly 68% White, 15% Hispanic, 0% Black, 4% Asian, 11% Two or more.
What district is Newport Elementary in?
Newport Elementary is part of Newport-Mesa Unified.
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