Summary:
Zip code 92649 has two Ocean View district elementary schools, both serving kindergarten through grade five: Harbour View Elementary and Village View Elementary. In 2025–2026, both schools exceeded California’s proficiency rates in all three subjects: ELA, math and science. The clearest overall takeaway is that Village View led Harbour View in every all-grade and same-grade test comparison, while Harbour View still scored above the state in most results.
Village View is the test-score standout, with all-grade proficiency of 69% in ELA, 64% in math and 51% in science, compared with 57%, 52% and 46% at Harbour View. Those school-to-school gaps are 12 percentage points in ELA, 12 in math and 5 in science. Harbour View is the lower-scoring school of the two, but its all-grade results were still 8 points above the state in ELA, 14 in math and 10 in science. The sharpest contrast is fifth-grade ELA: Village View scored 71%, versus 48% at Harbour View, a 23-point gap.
Recent results and SchoolDigger rankings show different trajectories. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Village View gained 5 points in ELA and 12 in math, but fell 2 in science; Harbour View fell 1 point in ELA and 4 in math, while gaining 2 in science. SchoolDigger’s percentile rose from 66 to 85 for Village View and declined from 83 to 73 for Harbour View; both currently have four stars. In 2025–2026, chronic absenteeism was 4% at Village View and 9% at Harbour View, below the Ocean View district’s 10%. In 2024–2025, Village View had a higher student–teacher ratio (26.2 versus 23.7) and a slightly lower free/reduced lunch eligible rate (39% versus 41%). These are contextual differences, not explanations for test results.
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