Summary:
Zip code 92655 has two public elementary schools, both serving grades K–5 in the Westminster district: Cecil B. DeMille My Viet Language Academy (562 students) and Dr. Jessie Hayden Elementary (514 students). In 2025–26, both schools were above the state in all three reported subjects, but DeMille led Hayden in ELA, math and science. The most pronounced difference is in math, where DeMille’s proficiency was 15 percentage points higher.
DeMille stands out as the stronger overall performer: its ELA result was 64% versus Hayden’s 56%, math was 56% versus 41%, and science was 42% versus 40%. The schools’ closest result was science, just 2 points apart. Hayden’s strongest comparison with the state was science: its 40% proficiency was 4 points above the state, while its math result was only 3 points above. Hayden’s all-grades math figure also hides a grade-level concern: it was above the state in grade 3 (60% versus 47%), but below in grade 4 (40% versus 42%) and grade 5 (31% versus 37%).
Recent results show different directions, especially in math. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, DeMille improved 5 points in ELA, 1 in math and 8 in science; Hayden gained 1 point in ELA but fell 7 in math and 1 in science. Across the two schools, their average advantage over the state grew by 2 points in ELA, narrowed by 4 in math and was essentially unchanged in science. SchoolDigger’s rankings were steadier for DeMille, which moved from the 78th percentile to the 78th over the period, than for Hayden, which fell from the 71st to the 65th. As context, 2024–25 free/reduced lunch eligible figures were 68% at DeMille and 80% at Hayden; DeMille’s student-teacher ratio was slightly higher, 23.4 compared with 22.3. These are school-to-school differences, not explanations for test results.
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