Cabrillo Elementary

Set in Pacifica, California, Cabrillo Elementary is a reasonably sized K-5 school, one of the schools within Pacifica. It educates 524 students across grades K through 8.

Cabrillo Elementary is one of 7 schools operated by Pacifica, a district that educates 2,640 students overall.

On demographics, Cabrillo Elementary lists that the largest single group is White at 51%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 24% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, 9% Asian. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 38%.

On the resource side, On paper, Cabrillo Elementary has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 14% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against San Mateo County (around 34%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Cabrillo Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.4%, the actual is 57.0%, a residual of -14.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for San Mateo County shows median household earnings sit near $158,855, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Cabrillo Elementary is one of 176 public schools in San Mateo County (combined enrollment of about 82,403 students).

Terra Nova High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cabrillo Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 57.7%.

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

Over the past 7-year window. Cabrillo Elementary's enrollment has contracted 8% since 2018, when it stood at 569 (now 524). Class-load math has fell: from 24.8:1 in 2018 to 22.5:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the Cabrillo Elementary community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.