Daniel Webster Elementary

Daniel Webster Elementary is an elementary campus of low-enrollment scale in Daly City, California, overseen by Jefferson Elementary, hosting 317 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Daniel Webster Elementary sits 32% leaner than that benchmark.

Jefferson Elementary runs 20 schools in total, collectively educating 8,072 students. Daniel Webster Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Daniel Webster Elementary lists that the largest single group is Asian at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 39% Hispanic, 6% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, San Mateo County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Daniel Webster Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.0%, the actual is 37.0%, a residual of -6.1 points.

In the area at large, 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across San Mateo County's 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,403 students), Daniel Webster Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Thomas Edison Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Daniel Webster Elementary comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 49.4%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Daniel Webster Elementary's enrollment has decreased 30% since 2018, when it stood at 450 (now 317). Hispanic enrollment moved from 33% to 39% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.7:1 in 2018 to 22.6:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Daniel Webster Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.