Beach Park Elementary

Beach Park Elementary, an intimate elementary school in Foster City, California, operated by San Mateo-Foster City, educates 347 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Beach Park Elementary sits 25% leaner than that benchmark.

Within San Mateo-Foster City, which oversees 22 schools and 9,906 students, Beach Park Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Beach Park Elementary lists that 50% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest reads as 20% White, 17% Hispanic, 10% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 31% Asian, putting the school's mix visibly more Asian than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 15% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below San Mateo County's rate of about 34%.

After controlling for student poverty, Beach Park Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 70.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 75.7%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (San Mateo County) logs that median household earnings sit near $158,855, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, San Mateo County runs 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,403 students), of which Beach Park Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Foster City Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Beach Park Elementary comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 75.5%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

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