Star View Elementary

Star View Elementary is one of the small elementary campuss in Westminster, California, run under Ocean View, with 391 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Across the 18 schools in Ocean View (9,093 students total), Star View Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Star View Elementary logs that the largest single group is Asian at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 25% Hispanic, 11% White, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Orange County as a whole is about 22% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Star View Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Orange County (around 55%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Star View Elementary sits in the top 10% of California schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 39.4%; actual is 66.0%, +26.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Orange County shows 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%. Star View Elementary is one of 649 public schools in Orange County (combined enrollment of about 430,458 students).

Demille Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Star View Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Star View Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 55.5%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Star View Elementary has ticked down 21%, going from 493 students in 2018 to 391 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 17% to 11%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 25.9:1 in 2018 to 24.4:1 today.

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