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Oka (Isojiro) Elementary
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 81 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 19 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 17 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 59% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Oka (Isojiro) Elementary
Set in Huntington Beach, California, Oka (Isojiro) Elementary is a moderately sized primary school, one of the schools within Fountain Valley Elementary. It hosts 504 students across grades K through 5.
Across the 10 schools in Fountain Valley Elementary (6,010 students total), Oka (Isojiro) Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On demographics, Oka (Isojiro) Elementary shows that 48% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 25% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 12% multiracial.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 34% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 55%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Oka (Isojiro) Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 59.2%; this one delivers 78.0%, a residual of +18.8 points.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Orange County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $116,289 per year, 44% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Orange County runs 649 public schools (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students), of which Oka (Isojiro) Elementary is one.
Nearest neighbor: Talbert (Samuel E.) Middle, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oka (Isojiro) Elementary. On composite proficiency, Oka (Isojiro) Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 71.8%.
The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Oka (Isojiro) Elementary has rose 8%, going from 466 students in 2018 to 504 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 54% to 48%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 27.4:1 in 2018 to 25.2:1 in 2025.
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