The Huntington Beach City School District (HBCSD) is reviewing how we offer Transitional Kindergarten (TK) beginning in the 2026–27 school year, and we invite you to share your perspective through a community survey.

Currently, TK is offered at four of our six elementary schools using a hub model. Under this model, some TK students attend a school outside of their school of residence. This approach helps the District maintain reasonable class sizes, support teacher collaboration, and use limited classroom space efficiently.

As we plan for the future, we are exploring two options:

• Continuing the hub model, with TK offered at select schools, or

• Offering TK at every elementary school, with enrollment caps at some sites and overflow to designated hub schools when classes fill.

As part of this review, it is important to understand TK's financial context in HBCSD. HBCSD is a community-funded district, and unlike most California school districts, we do not receive state funding for our TK program. This means the cost of offering this early education program is funded directly from our general fund budget, which also supports other programs and services. For the 2025–26 school year, HBCSD anticipates spending more than $2.3 million on TK.

Your feedback will help inform how we balance family access, school site capacity, staffing, class sizes, and financial responsibility.

We also encourage families to share this information with friends, neighbors, and community members who will have TK-aged children, so their voices can be included in this conversation.

Planning the Future of TK in HBCSD: Community Survey 

Survey Open: January 7–January 16, 2026

Thank you for taking the time to share your input and support future planning for our TK programs.