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Mar Vista Elementary

Public Grades K-5
4209th
SchoolDigger Rank ?
of 5,817 California Elementary Schools
Better than 28% of California elementary schools
Summary

Mar Vista Elementary serves 464 students in kindergarten through fifth grade in Oxnard’s Ocean View district. In 2025–26, its students’ proficiency rates were below California’s in English language arts (ELA), math, and science, but the school performed better than its district in ELA and math. Its clearest local strength is math: Mar Vista ranked first among nine nearby K–5 schools, even though its 28% proficiency rate remained below the state’s 38%.

ELA is another relative strength: 33% of students were proficient, compared with 30% in the Ocean View district and 49% statewide; Mar Vista ranked second among nearby K–5 schools, whose average was 23%. Science was weaker: 16% were proficient, below the district’s 19% and the state’s 36%, and Mar Vista ranked sixth of nine nearby K–5 schools. Third grade stood out, especially in math: 48% were proficient, 21 points above the schoolwide rate. By contrast, fifth-grade ELA and math rates were 28% and 18%, respectively, below the schoolwide results.

ELA shows the clearest improvement over time: proficiency rose from 24% in 2022–23 to 33% in 2025–26, narrowing the gap to the state by 7 points. Science improved overall but fell from 20% in 2024–25 to 16% in 2025–26. SchoolDigger placed Mar Vista at the 28th percentile statewide with 1 star in 2025–26, up from the 9th percentile and 0 stars in 2021–22, though down 2 percentile points from the previous year. SchoolDigger’s available rankings also show notably stronger standing in serving English Language Learner Students: the group ranked at the 66th percentile in 2022–23, compared with the school’s overall 16th percentile. In 2024–25, 81.5% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible; Parkview Elementary reported the same rate. The student–teacher ratio was 21.0 in 2024–25, close to the nearby-school average of 21.3. Chronic absenteeism was also comparatively low in 2025–26 at 12%, below the district’s 16% and state’s 18%; only Art Haycox Elementary had a lower rate among the nearby schools listed.

464
Students ?
21.0
Student/teacher ratio ?
$22,046
Per pupil spending ?
81.5%
Free/reduced lunch eligible (2024-25) ?
All students in California receive free school meals.
≥ 99%
Kindergartners with all required immunizations (2024-25)
 2382 Etting Rd.
       Oxnard, CA  93033-6864

(805) 488-3659

District: Ocean View


Students who attend Mar Vista Elementary usually attend:

Middle:    Ocean View Junior High
High:    Channel Islands High
Racial breakdown:

Hispanic:
95.0%
White:
2.4%
African American:
0.9%
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At a glance
▲ Ranking trend: Improving — 6th percentile in 2015 → 28th in 2026
Strengths
✓Ranking is trending up — up 22 percentile points since 2015
Worth a look
!Test scores below the California average (28% vs 42% meeting standards)
!Science scores 20 pts below the California average
Students meeting standards (2025-2026) ?
This school28%
District avg25%
California avg42%
4,209th of 5,817
California public elementary schools ?
Bottom 28%▲ up 26 pts since 2016
From bottom 2% (2016) to bottom 28% (2026)
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★★★★★
SchoolDigger rating ?
2nd of 3Elementary Schools in the Ocean View
1298th of 1,530Ocean View among California districts
Statewide rank percentile over time (100 = the top-ranked school in the state; click a legend item to add a student group)
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All Students

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankCalifornia percentileRating
202627.24209 of 581727.6%★☆☆☆☆
202528.04129 of 585729.5%★☆☆☆☆
202422.84596 of 586921.7%★☆☆☆☆
202319.64896 of 585916.4%★☆☆☆☆
202215.15353 of 58839.0%☆☆☆☆☆
201910.65529 of 57894.5%☆☆☆☆☆
20187.65553 of 56621.9%☆☆☆☆☆
20178.65565 of 56922.2%☆☆☆☆☆
20168.65509 of 56141.9%☆☆☆☆☆
201513.35252 of 56116.4%☆☆☆☆☆
201315.35031 of 55309.0%☆☆☆☆☆
201214.05014 of 53907.0%☆☆☆☆☆
201120.14675 of 537713.1%★☆☆☆☆
201013.84970 of 53146.5%☆☆☆☆☆
200917.54593 of 519311.6%★☆☆☆☆
200824.14042 of 511320.9%★☆☆☆☆
200717.64473 of 511312.5%★☆☆☆☆
200622.63815 of 481820.8%★☆☆☆☆
200526.33530 of 482226.8%★☆☆☆☆
200427.13411 of 480929.1%★☆☆☆☆

English Language Learner

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankCalifornia percentileRating
202444.21534 of 316251.5%★★★☆☆
202351.41112 of 324565.7%★★★☆☆
202234.02280 of 331131.1%★★☆☆☆
201936.62015 of 327538.5%★★☆☆☆
201836.41982 of 324638.9%★★☆☆☆

Female

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankCalifornia percentileRating
202626.84117 of 558126.2%★☆☆☆☆
202522.84450 of 559720.5%★☆☆☆☆
202428.43938 of 561229.8%★☆☆☆☆
202319.04787 of 560914.7%★☆☆☆☆
202219.54763 of 563515.5%★☆☆☆☆
201912.45181 of 54925.7%☆☆☆☆☆
20188.95281 of 54132.4%☆☆☆☆☆

Hispanic

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankCalifornia percentileRating
202635.53316 of 509434.9%★★☆☆☆
202538.23147 of 510738.4%★★☆☆☆
202431.03667 of 510728.2%★☆☆☆☆
202327.83872 of 508723.9%★☆☆☆☆
202220.74462 of 508412.2%★☆☆☆☆
201914.74675 of 49635.8%☆☆☆☆☆
201810.04727 of 48302.1%☆☆☆☆☆

Low Socio Economic Status

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankCalifornia percentileRating
202632.73743 of 542331.0%★★☆☆☆
202533.63691 of 546032.4%★★☆☆☆
202423.64493 of 551718.6%★☆☆☆☆
202324.04381 of 536318.3%★☆☆☆☆
202216.84860 of 52647.7%☆☆☆☆☆
201912.24977 of 51733.8%☆☆☆☆☆
201810.34943 of 50842.8%☆☆☆☆☆

Male

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankCalifornia percentileRating
202629.73901 of 560330.4%★★☆☆☆
202533.53589 of 562836.2%★★☆☆☆
202418.44876 of 564313.6%★☆☆☆☆
202321.54562 of 563819.1%★☆☆☆☆
202212.25433 of 56634.1%☆☆☆☆☆
201910.25341 of 55103.1%☆☆☆☆☆
20187.55364 of 54311.2%☆☆☆☆☆
How student groups rank statewide ? (each group's percentile vs the same group at other schools — higher is better; the +/- beside each compares the group with this school's overall percentile)
English Language Learner (2024)51st percentile+30 vs school
Hispanic (2026)35th percentile+7 vs school
Low Socio Economic Status (2026)31st percentile+3 vs school
Male (2026)30th percentile+3 vs school
Female (2026)26th percentile~ school
By subject vs California (2025-2026) ?
English Language Arts/Literacy33%-16 vs state
Mathematics28%-11 vs state
Science16%-20 vs state

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Students who attend Mar Vista Elementary usually go on to attend:

Middle : Ocean View Junior High
High : Channel Islands High

Mar Vista Elementary ranks 4209th of 5817 California elementary schools. SchoolDigger rates this school 1 star out of 5.

Students at Mar Vista Elementary are 95% Hispanic, 2% White.

In the 2024-25 school year, 464 students attended Mar Vista Elementary.

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Latest California data All new data »
2024–25 school spending data (updated)NewNov 2, 2026
2013–14 through 2024–25 immunization rates (updated)Oct 19, 2026
2025–26 attendance data, dropout rates & graduation ratesOct 15, 2026
2025–26 CAST, CSA Spanish & Smarter Balanced Assessments scoresOct 15, 2026


SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the California Department of Education.

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