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What advice would you give to incoming students at Bayside Academy?
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Enrollment
840
Elementary
DISTRICT 387 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAN MATEO-FOSTER CITY·NCES 063492014143
Bayside Academy
2025 Kehoe Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403 · (650) 312-7660 · San Mateo County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL840 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 21% of California public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.4:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.7:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
363 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 41 | 5% |
| Grade 1 | 44 | 5% |
| Grade 2 | 48 | 6% |
| Grade 3 | 43 | 5% |
| Grade 4 | 41 | 5% |
| Grade 5 | 54 | 6% |
| Grade 6 | 177 | 21% |
| Grade 7 | 194 | 23% |
| Grade 8 | 198 | 24% |
This year's kindergarten class (41) is 79% smaller than its 8th grade class (198).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
47.7%
CA avg 49.1% . -8.2pp since 2017
Math
38.5%
CA avg 37.7% . -6.5pp since 2017
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 39 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2017, while math scores are down about 7 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 25.0% | 22.7% | 21.8% | 30.6% |
| Math | 27.2% | 11.3% | 19.7% | 41.8% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.7% | 38.5% |
| 2023-24 | 49.9% | 39.5% |
| 2022-23 | 51.1% | 41.8% |
| 2021-22 | 54.3% | 43.4% |
| 2020-21 | 50.3% | 37.4% |
| 2018-19 | 54.4% | 43.8% |
| 2017-18 | 55.9% | 45.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
39.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.2%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 54% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Bayside Academy
Bayside Academy's state test result (39.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bayside Academy this school | 840 | 43.2% | 39.5% |
| Hedenkamp (Anne and William) Elementary Chula Vista | 855 | 41.2% | 57.4% |
| Las Animas Elementary Gilroy | 800 | 41.3% | 53.5% |
| McMillin (Corky) Elementary Chula Vista | 691 | 46.0% | 67.5% |
| Veterans Elementary Chula Vista | 832 | 42.8% | 63.5% |
| J. Marion Roynon Elementary La Verne | 842 | 42.5% | 67.8% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Bayside Academy ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In San Mateo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.5% | #2,536 of 5,151 | #70 of 96 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.5% | #2,405 of 5,172 ▼ 176 | #70 of 96 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.7% | #2,221 of 5,172 ▼ 315 | #65 of 96 ▼ 5 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -5.8pp | #453 of 5,116 | #18 of 96 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 840 | #278 of 5,915 | #1 of 106 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.4:1 | #663 of 5,352 | #24 of 99 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.5% | #1,317 of 5,354 | #48 of 99 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.2% | #4,207 of 5,625 | #38 of 103 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.6% | #3,125 of 3,837 | #64 of 79 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
840
-58 (-6%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
19.4:1
was 20.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 840 | 43.4 | 19.4:1 | 43% (363) |
| 2023-24 | 855 | 44.4 | 19.3:1 | 42% (362) |
| 2022-23 | 842 | 44.4 | 19.0:1 | 40% (336) |
| 2020-21 | 898 | 43 | 20.9:1 | 42% (375) |
| 2017-18 | 899 | 43.5 | 20.7:1 | 45% (409) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bayside Academy.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (899 to 840); teachers unchanged (43.5 to 43.4).
About Bayside Academy
Among the schools in San Mateo, California, is Bayside Academy, a large elementary school. Federal data show 840 students enrolled in kindergarten through 8 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 465 students for elementary schools in California.
San Mateo-Foster City has 9,906 students in 22 schools, and Bayside Academy is one of those schools.
Federal enrollment data show Bayside Academy is 54% Hispanic. Other groups include 22% Asian, 8% White, 8% multiracial, and 5% Pacific Islander. The county population is about 25% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 64, compared with 70 nationally.
For every teacher at Bayside Academy, there are about 19.4 students; the school has 43.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in California, 22.3:1, is higher. There are 363 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 43% of enrollment. Across public schools in San Mateo County, the average is 34%.
Bayside Academy holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 21% of California public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Bayside Academy would score about 54.2%. It scores 39.5%, a bottom-10% result among California schools on BeatsExpectations.
In San Mateo County, home to about 742,340 people, the median household earns about $158,855 a year, roughly 54% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in San Mateo County number 176, with about 82,403 students.
Measured in a straight line, Parkside Montessori is about 0.3 miles from Bayside Academy. The five-mile area around Bayside Academy holds at least 8 other public schools. The school's 39.5% average proficiency ranks 5th among 8 nearby schools.
Its location is classified as City: Mid-size by the National Center for Education Statistics.
A 6% decline took enrollment from 898 in 2020-21 to 840 in 2024-25. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (19.4:1) than in 2020-21 (20.9:1).
Anyone can start a thread about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures at Bayside Academy. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
San Mateo County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
742,340
Census ACS
Median income
$158,855
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
54%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
176
82,403 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in San Mateo-Foster City
- Bowditch MiddleMiddle · 929 students
- Borel MiddleMiddle · 903 students
- Abbott MiddleMiddle · 721 students
- Foster City ElementaryElementary · 624 students
- Baywood ElementaryElementary · 489 students
- Laurel ElementaryElementary · 469 students
Other schools in San Mateo
- Aragon HighHigh · 1,658 students
- Hillsdale HighHigh · 1,585 students
- San Mateo HighHigh · 1,557 students
- Borel MiddleMiddle · 903 students
- Abbott MiddleMiddle · 721 students
- Baywood ElementaryElementary · 489 students
Nearby schools
- Parkside Montessori0.3 mi · 418
- LEAD Elementary0.4 mi · 349
- Sunnybrae Elementary1.0 mi · 346
- Fiesta Gardens International Elementary1.0 mi · 418
- San Mateo-Foster City Special Education Preschool1.2 mi · 1
- North Shoreview Montessori1.3 mi · 325
Frequently asked questions
About Bayside AcademyWhat is the total enrollment at Bayside Academy?
Bayside Academy enrolls approximately 840 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does Bayside Academy serve?
Bayside Academy serves grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Bayside Academy?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bayside Academy is approximately 19.4:1 (43 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Bayside Academy?
At Bayside Academy, the student body is approximately 8% White, 54% Hispanic, 2% Black, 22% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Bayside Academy public or private?
Bayside Academy is a public K-12 school, overseen by San Mateo-Foster City.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.