Ocean View Elementary

As a reasonably sized elementary-level community in Whittier, California, Ocean View Elementary caters to 668 students from grades K through 5, run under East Whittier City Elementary. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Ocean View Elementary sits 44% larger than that benchmark.

Ocean View Elementary is one of 13 schools operated by East Whittier City Elementary, a district that works with 7,442 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Ocean View Elementary logs that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest breaks down as 11% White, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 48%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 26.2:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ocean View Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 49.0%; actual is 69.3%, +20.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Los Angeles County put median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Ocean View Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Nearest neighbor: East Whittier Middle, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ocean View Elementary at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 48.8%.

Ocean View Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 7%: 718 students in 2018 compared to 668 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 27.6:1 in 2018 to 26.2:1 today.

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