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Enrollment
539
Elementary
DISTRICT 499 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HUENEME ELEMENTARY·NCES 061785002197
Richard Bard Elementary
622 East Pleasant Valley Rd., Port Hueneme, CA 93041 · (805) 488-3583 · Ventura County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL539 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 19% of California public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-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
19.2:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.6:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
403 students
DISTRICT 80% · STATE 65%
Community
6
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 | 121 | 22% |
| Grade 1 | 83 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 79 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 80 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (121) is 42% larger than its 5th grade class (85).
Student demographics
32%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 22% · 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
30.3%
CA avg 49.1% . +3.3pp since 2014
Math
23.6%
CA avg 37.7% . +6.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 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 3 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 9.5% | 20.8% | 26.6% | 43.1% |
| Math | 6.2% | 17.4% | 33.5% | 43.0% |
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 | 30.3% | 23.6% |
| 2023-24 | 31.1% | 22.6% |
| 2022-23 | 29.5% | 18.0% |
| 2021-22 | 27.3% | 21.2% |
| 2018-19 | 36.8% | 28.4% |
| 2017-18 | 30.9% | 21.2% |
| 2016-17 | 26.8% | 19.6% |
| 2015-16 | 34.0% | 20.0% |
| 2014-15 | 27.0% | 17.0% |
% 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
26.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.7%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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 Richard Bard Elementary
Richard Bard Elementary's state test result (26.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Bard Elementary this school | 539 | 74.8% | 26.8% |
| Grant Elementary Richmond | 551 | 73.7% | 6.2% |
| Mango Elementary Fontana | 523 | 73.2% | 27.6% |
| Ben Lomond Elementary Covina | 506 | 75.1% | 41.0% |
| W.J.C. Trapp Elementary Rialto | 537 | 73.9% | 47.6% |
| Rio del Norte Oxnard | 495 | 73.1% | 26.8% |
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 Richard Bard Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Ventura County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.8% | #3,883 of 5,151 | #90 of 121 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.6% | #3,930 of 5,172 ▼ 46 | #89 of 122 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.3% | #3,959 of 5,172 ▼ 290 | #97 of 122 ▼ 15 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.7pp | #2,400 of 5,116 | #60 of 121 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 539 | #1,990 of 5,915 | #33 of 130 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.2:1 | #611 of 5,352 | #19 of 124 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.6% | #3,874 of 5,354 | #79 of 124 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.8% | #2,634 of 5,625 | #42 of 127 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.2% | #1,173 of 3,837 | #29 of 99 |
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
539
-61 (-10%) vs 2020
-25% since 1990-91, when it was 717
Student : Teacher
19.2:1
was 20.0:1
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 | 539 | 28 | 19.2:1 | 75% (403) |
| 2023-24 | 530 | 27.3 | 19.4:1 | 75% (400) |
| 2022-23 | 548 | 27.2 | 20.2:1 | 75% (411) |
| 2020-21 | 600 | 30 | 20.0:1 | 57% (341) |
| 2017-18 | 693 | 28.8 | 24.1:1 | 77% (536) |
| 2015-16 | 695 | 28 | 24.8:1 | 75% (518) |
| 2010-11 | 694 | N/A | N/A | 62% (431) |
| 2000-01 | 710 | 34 | 20.9:1 | 63% (450) |
| 1990-91 | 717 | 27 | 26.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Richard Bard Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (693 to 539); teachers down 3% (28.8 to 28).
About Richard Bard Elementary
Richard Bard Elementary operates as a mid-sized elementary school in Port Hueneme, California. Federal data show 539 students enrolled in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25.
Hueneme Elementary counts 6,678 students in its 11 schools, and Richard Bard Elementary is one of them.
Of every 100 students at Richard Bard Elementary, about 82 are Hispanic. Other students are 6% White, 5% Black, 4% Asian, and 3% multiracial. That is higher than the 44% Hispanic share among all Ventura County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 32%.
There are 28 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 19.2:1. The gap from the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California is 3.1 students per teacher. On the income side, 75% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 59% average for public schools in Ventura County is 16 points.
Richard Bard Elementary earns a C- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 19% of California public elementary schools.
Richard Bard Elementary's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 26.8% is 8.9 points below the 35.7% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Census data for Ventura County show median household income comes to about $109,797, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. The county has 238 public schools and about 147,841 students.
About 0.4 miles separate Richard Bard Elementary from the closest public school, Hueneme Elementary. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Richard Bard Elementary ranks 1st of 9 on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count fell 10% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
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Ventura County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
837,469
Census ACS
Median income
$109,797
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
238
147,841 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hueneme Elementary
- Charles Blackstock Junior HighMiddle · 1,239 students
- E. O. Green Junior HighMiddle · 949 students
- Art Haycox ElementaryElementary · 724 students
- Fred L. Williams ElementaryElementary · 572 students
- Ansgar Larsen ElementaryElementary · 538 students
- Parkview ElementaryElementary · 525 students
Other schools in Port Hueneme
- Parkview ElementaryElementary · 525 students
- Sunkist ElementaryElementary · 523 students
- Hueneme ElementaryElementary · 329 students
Nearby schools
- Hueneme Elementary0.4 mi · 329
- Art Haycox Elementary0.5 mi · 724
- Parkview Elementary0.6 mi · 525
- Hueneme High0.6 mi · 1,913
- E. O. Green Junior High0.9 mi · 949
- Julien Hathaway Elementary1.0 mi · 451
Frequently asked questions
About Richard Bard ElementaryHow large is Richard Bard Elementary?
Richard Bard Elementary enrolls approximately 539 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Richard Bard Elementary serve?
Richard Bard Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Richard Bard Elementary?
Approximately 19.2:1 students per teacher at Richard Bard Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Richard Bard Elementary?
Student demographics at Richard Bard Elementary are roughly 6% White, 82% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Richard Bard Elementary?
Richard Bard Elementary is overseen by Hueneme Elementary in Ventura County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.