Enrollment
218
Elementary
DISTRICT 387 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAN MATEO-FOSTER CITY·NCES 063492007781
Beresford Elementary
300 28th Ave., San Mateo, CA 94403 · (650) 312-7551 · San Mateo County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL218 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 42% of California public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-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
21.8:1
10 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.7:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
128 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 65%
Community
0
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 | 44 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 41 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 27 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 32 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 39 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 35 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (44) is 26% larger than its 5th grade class (35).
Student demographics
60%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
35.6%
CA avg 49.1% . -7.4pp since 2014
Math
44.2%
CA avg 37.7% . -7.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 7 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 8 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 19.2% | 16.4% | 21.1% | 43.3% |
| Math | 15.4% | 28.9% | 12.5% | 43.3% |
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 | 35.6% | 44.2% |
| 2023-24 | 46.0% | 44.3% |
| 2022-23 | 44.4% | 46.6% |
| 2021-22 | 46.0% | 37.5% |
| 2020-21 | 40.0% | 29.0% |
| 2018-19 | 51.9% | 53.4% |
| 2017-18 | 59.0% | 58.8% |
| 2016-17 | 51.9% | 47.0% |
| 2015-16 | 56.0% | 48.0% |
| 2014-15 | 43.0% | 52.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
42.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.1%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 42% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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%.
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 Beresford Elementary
Beresford Elementary's state test result (42.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beresford Elementary this school | 218 | 58.7% | 42.2% |
| Walnut Elementary Newbury Park | 259 | 54.4% | 53.8% |
| Jack London Elementary Santa Rosa | 258 | 60.1% | 30.6% |
| Lo-Inyo Elementary Lone Pine | 197 | 59.4% | 36.4% |
| John Foster Dulles Elementary La Mirada | 250 | 56.4% | 43.8% |
| La Pluma Elementary La Mirada | 284 | 55.6% | 45.9% |
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 Beresford Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In San Mateo County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.2% | #2,291 of 5,151 | #66 of 96 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.2% | #1,979 of 5,172 ▼ 109 | #61 of 96 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.6% | #3,369 of 5,172 ▼ 1,172 | #77 of 96 ▼ 13 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.9pp | #1,258 of 5,116 | #40 of 96 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 218 | #5,277 of 5,915 | #97 of 106 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.8:1 | #2,049 of 5,352 | #46 of 99 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.7% | #1,858 of 5,354 | #59 of 99 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.7% | #3,533 of 5,625 | #29 of 103 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.7% | #1,685 of 3,837 | #32 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
218
-41 (-16%) vs 2020
-18% since 2000-01, when it was 265
Student : Teacher
21.8:1
was 23.6:1
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 | 218 | 10 | 21.8:1 | 59% (128) |
| 2023-24 | 212 | 11 | 19.3:1 | 50% (105) |
| 2022-23 | 238 | 13 | 18.3:1 | 40% (95) |
| 2020-21 | 259 | 11 | 23.6:1 | 39% (101) |
| 2017-18 | 265 | 11 | 24.1:1 | 45% (119) |
| 2015-16 | 283 | 11 | 25.7:1 | 48% (136) |
| 2010-11 | 256 | N/A | N/A | 50% (127) |
| 2000-01 | 265 | 12 | 22.1:1 | 22% (59) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Beresford Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (265 to 218); teachers down 9% (11 to 10).
About Beresford Elementary
Beresford Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school in San Mateo-Foster City, located in San Mateo, California. The school runs kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 218 students. Elementary schools in California average about 465 students, which makes this school 53% below average.
San Mateo-Foster City runs Beresford Elementary along with 21 other schools, enrolling 9,906 students in total.
More than half of enrollment at Beresford Elementary is Hispanic: 59%. Other groups make up 19% White, 12% Asian, and 8% multiracial. San Mateo County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Beresford Elementary scores 60%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 21.8:1. The school has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is in line with the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Beresford Elementary, 59% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in San Mateo County is 34%.
Beresford Elementary earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 42% of California public elementary schools.
Beresford Elementary scores 42.2% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 45.1%.
San Mateo County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $158,855, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 54%, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Beresford Elementary shares San Mateo County with 175 other public schools.
Of the public schools around it, Beresford Elementary is closest to Meadow Heights Elementary, about 0.4 miles away. Beresford Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Beresford Elementary's average proficiency of 42.2% compares with 45.5% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Mid-size: inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Federal enrollment counts fell from 259 (2020-21) to 218 (2024-25). Federal data show the ratio falling from 23.6:1 to 21.8:1.
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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
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- Abbott MiddleMiddle · 721 students
- Foster City ElementaryElementary · 624 students
- Baywood ElementaryElementary · 489 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
- Bayside AcademyElementary · 840 students
- Abbott MiddleMiddle · 721 students
Other Beresford Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Beresford Elementary. Beresford Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Beresford Elementary - 02Beresford, SD · 273 students
Nearby schools
- Meadow Heights Elementary0.4 mi · 238
- Hillsdale High0.5 mi · 1,585
- Laurel Elementary0.6 mi · 469
- Abbott Middle0.6 mi · 721
- Borel Middle1.0 mi · 903
- Fiesta Gardens International Elementary1.0 mi · 418
Frequently asked questions
About Beresford ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Beresford Elementary?
Beresford Elementary enrolls approximately 218 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Beresford Elementary serve?
Beresford Elementary serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Beresford Elementary have?
Beresford Elementary employs 10 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Beresford Elementary?
Student demographics at Beresford Elementary are roughly 19% White, 59% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Beresford Elementary?
Beresford Elementary is overseen by San Mateo-Foster City in San Mateo County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.