Elementary Schools in Hueneme Elementary

The nine elementary schools in Hueneme Elementary serve mostly kindergarten through grade 5; Hollywood Beach serves through grade 6 and Sunkist through grade 8, and enrollment ranges from 289 to 724 students. Across the schools, average 2025–2026 proficiency was 28% in English language arts (ELA), 22% in math, and 20% in science, compared with state results of 49%, 38%, and 36%. The most important finding for families is how widely results differ from one school to another.

Hollywood Beach Elementary led all three subjects, with 51% in ELA, 48% in math, and 53% in science; it was above state results by 2, 9, and 17 percentage points, respectively. The next-highest schools were Fred L. Williams Elementary in ELA and science, and Sunkist Elementary in math. At the other end, Art Haycox Elementary scored 9% in ELA, 6% in math, and 4% in science—about 42, 42, and 49 points below Hollywood Beach. SchoolDigger ranked Hollywood Beach at the 66th percentile and gave it 3 stars; the other schools ranked at the 29th percentile or below, with 0 or 1 star.

Recent average progress was modest: from 2024–2025, the nine-school average rose by less than 1 point in ELA and 2 points each in math and science. State results increased faster in ELA and science, while the schools’ average math gain was larger than the state’s. Individual schools varied: Fred L. Williams gained 18 points in science, while Ansgar Larsen Elementary fell 8 points. Other context does not make a simple pattern: Hollywood Beach was the smallest school and had the lowest reported free/reduced lunch eligibility, at 39% in 2024–2025; Art Haycox was the largest and highest, at 95%. Student-teacher ratios ranged from 19.0 to 22.2, and similarly sized Sunkist and Parkview Elementary had different results. These all-grade comparisons are not perfectly like-for-like because the schools serve different grade spans.