Belle Air Elementary

Belle Air Elementary, a small elementary-level community in San Bruno, California, one of the schools within San Bruno Park Elementary, educates 250 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Belle Air Elementary sits 46% leaner than that benchmark.

Belle Air Elementary is one of 5 schools operated by San Bruno Park Elementary, a district that works with 2,001 students overall.

Demographically, Belle Air Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 70% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% Pacific Islander, 8% Asian, 5% multiracial. By comparison, San Mateo County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Belle Air Elementary has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of San Mateo County's rate of about 34%.

With demographic context factored in, Belle Air Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.0%, the actual is 22.7%, a residual of -11.3 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (San Mateo County) logs that median household income runs about $158,855, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across San Mateo County's 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,403 students), Belle Air Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Allen (Decima M.) Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Belle Air Elementary at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 53.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 11%: 280 students in 2018 compared to 250 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 65% to 70% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 31.1:1 in 2018 to 25.0:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.