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Alamo Elementary
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 12 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Alamo Elementary
Alamo Elementary, a cozy primary school in San Francisco, California, run under San Francisco Unified, works with 390 students, covering grades K through 5.
Across the 106 schools in San Francisco Unified (48,706 students total), Alamo Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, Alamo Elementary lists that the largest single group is Asian at 33%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 29% White, 20% multiracial, 17% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with San Francisco County as a whole.
On the resource side, The school reports having 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, San Francisco County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, Alamo Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.2%; this one delivers 69.2%.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for San Francisco County indicate median household income runs about $140,970, about 60% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across San Francisco County's 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 56,505 students), Alamo Elementary is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Presidio Middle, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Alamo Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 68.5%.
Alamo Elementary operates from a city-core location.
Looking at the recent track record. Alamo Elementary's enrollment has decreased 26% since 2018, when it stood at 526 (now 390). Over the same period, the Asian share edged down from 46% to 33%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 21.9:1 in 2018 to 23.3:1 today.
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