Webber Elementary, Westminster CA

Original Research by School Decision on Webber Elementary

Webber Elementary is a small school serving kindergarten through sixth grade in Westminster, a predominantly Vietnamese-American and Asian-American community in western Orange County. The school sits within the Westminster School District, which operates one of the nation's few continuous preschool-through-high-school Vietnamese-English dual language immersion pathways. For families considering Webber, the district context and the school's own academic profile paint a specific picture of what to expect.

The student body at Webber reflects Westminster's character. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals, and the school's enrollment is roughly evenly divided between Hispanic and Asian students, with a significant Asian population. The school is small, with enrollment distributed across its seven grades, making it an intimate setting where younger and older elementary students mix on campus.

Academically, Webber's state test results show an uneven pattern. In English language arts, performance ranges notably by grade. Third grade shows lower proficiency, while fourth and fifth grades perform considerably better, with fifth grade reaching the midpoint. Sixth grade pulls back to the mid-range. Math proficiency is lower across all grades, and drops as students progress, with sixth graders showing the lowest results. In science, fifth-grade results were reported below the midpoint. Across tested subjects and grades overall, Webber's proficiency index places it in the bottom quartile relative to districts in Orange County. A parent may want to look into this further with the school, particularly what support structures exist for math and what the transition between grade levels entails.

The school's location in a mid-sized suburban city shaped by mid-century housing and the Little Saigon commercial corridor means that Webber serves families in a neighborhood of working-class and immigrant households. The local housing market reflects that: median home values are elevated for the county and region, and monthly rent significantly exceeds mortgage estimates, placing housing affordability under strain for renters. The city itself is car-dependent and low-density outside its commercial districts, though it is undergoing major redevelopment around the former Westminster Mall site, which may reshape the neighborhood over the coming years.

Webber's district is actively building out early-learning dual language immersion programs in Spanish and Vietnamese and operates a Vietnamese-English pathway from preschool into high school. For a family whose home language is Vietnamese or Spanish, this represents a durable pathway choice. The district has also recently adopted formal AI guidance policies for classroom use.

The school is a regular public elementary school without special designation, charter status, or magnet affiliation. A school website was not provided in the available data, so a parent would want to visit the school directly or contact the district for information on programs, class sizes, teaching approach, and other details that influence daily school experience. What the data shows is a school serving a economically and linguistically diverse student population with academic performance that merits close attention, in a community where the district itself is making deliberate choices about language and biliteracy as foundational program offerings.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 336%

School 36% · District 51% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 21 pts below county median

Grade 438%

School 38% · District 48% · ▼ 10 pts below district

▲ 1 pts above state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 533%

School 33% · District 40% · ▼ 7 pts below district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

Grade 627%

School 27% · District 42% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 4 pts below state median · ▼ 20 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 335%

School 35% · District 49% · ▼ 14 pts below district

▼ 6 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 448%

School 48% · District 50% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▼ 7 pts below county median

Grade 558%

School 58% · District 57% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 12 pts above state median · even with county median

Grade 648%

School 48% · District 53% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

Science

Grade 530%

School 30% · District 34% · ▼ 4 pts below district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

This schoolWestminster, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.