Summary:
Hermosa Beach City Elementary serves the Hermosa Beach area through three schools spanning kindergarten through grade 8: Hermosa View Elementary (K–1), Hermosa Vista (grades 2–4) and Hermosa Valley Elementary (grades 5–8); together, they enroll 1,413 students. The supplied 2025–2026 test results show both Vista and Valley well above state proficiency in ELA and math; View has no test-score entries in the supplied data, which should not be read as a zero result. The clearest difference between the schools with results is math: Vista’s proficiency is 12 percentage points higher than Valley’s.
Vista stands out in math, with 84% proficient compared with Valley’s 72%; both are above the state’s 38%, by 46 and 33 points, respectively. In ELA, the schools are virtually tied at 79% each, about 29 points above the state’s 49%. Valley’s 70% science result is 34 points above the state’s 36%, though it is the only school science score supplied. Across the listed grade-level results, each school-and-grade result also exceeds its same-grade state benchmark; the smallest reported leads are Valley’s 24 points in grade 5 ELA and 31 points in grade 6 math.
Results remain strong, although the two-school average ELA lead over the state narrowed by about 2 points between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026; the average math lead stayed about 39 points. Valley’s science lead widened by about 5 points. SchoolDigger ranked Valley in the 96th percentile and Vista in the 95th percentile for 2025–2026, with five stars for both; their recent percentile rankings fluctuated rather than rising steadily. Valley has 589 students and a 21.7 student–teacher ratio, while Vista has 430 students and a 25.7 ratio. Their reported free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 9% and 8%, respectively, in 2024–2025; View was 8%. Chronic absenteeism was reported at 6% for Valley, 0% for Vista and 6% for View, compared with 18% statewide.
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