Summary:
The Live Oak Elementary area includes five schools: four elementary schools and Shoreline Middle, which serves grades 6–8; Ocean Alternative Education Center serves K–8. In 2025–26, the five-school average was 40% proficient in science, compared with California’s 36%, while the average was 38% in math versus 38% statewide and 47% in ELA versus 49%. The clearest area-wide finding is that science was the relative strength, while every school’s ELA result remained below the state’s.
Green Acres Elementary led all-grades ELA and math, with 49% and 46% proficient; its math result was 7 percentage points above the state. Del Mar Elementary was the science standout at 50%, 14 points above the state. At the other end, Live Oak Elementary had the lowest all-grades ELA (45%) and science (32%); Ocean had the lowest math result (32%). Grade-level results add important contrasts: Live Oak Elementary’s third-grade math was 68%, compared with 20% in fifth grade, while Green Acres led fourth-grade ELA and math and Del Mar led fifth-grade ELA and science.
Area averages improved in ELA, from 45% in 2024–25 to 47% in 2025–26, and in science, from 38% to 40%; math edged up from 37% to 38%, but the group fell farther behind the state. Results did not rise everywhere: Shoreline and Ocean declined in all three subjects, while Del Mar’s science result jumped 28 percentage points. SchoolDigger’s 2025–26 statewide percentile rankings were 63 for Green Acres, 59 for Del Mar and Shoreline, and 51 for Live Oak Elementary; Ocean’s supplied ranking is from 2021–22. For context, the 2024–25 student-teacher ratios ranged from 18.3 at Shoreline to 24.1 at Live Oak Elementary, and free/reduced lunch eligible figures for 2024–25 ranged from 47% at Ocean to 65% at Shoreline; these measures do not line up neatly with test results. Grade spans differ, so within-grade comparisons offer a clearer school-to-school picture.
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