Del Rey Elementary

Located at 1510 Via Sonya, in San Lorenzo, California, Del Rey Elementary is a tight-knit primary school that educates 373 students (grades K through 5), part of San Lorenzo Unified.

San Lorenzo Unified comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 7,936 students; Del Rey Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Del Rey Elementary lists that 62% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 19% Asian, 8% White, 6% multiracial, 3% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 69% of students at Del Rey Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Alameda County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Del Rey Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.3%, the actual is 34.3%, a residual of -4.0 points.

Around the school, census data for Alameda County shows median household income runs about $129,367, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Del Rey Elementary is one of 394 public schools in Alameda County (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students).

Bay Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Del Rey Elementary at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 33.7%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 29%: 526 students in 2018 compared to 373 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.