Encinal Elementary

As a reasonably sized elementary campus in Atherton, California, Encinal Elementary caters to 604 students from grades K through 5, part of Menlo Park City Elementary. Enrollment runs roughly 30% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Across the 4 schools in Menlo Park City Elementary (2,682 students total), Encinal Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Encinal Elementary lists that the largest single group is White at 36%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 18% Asian, 14% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 16% of students at Encinal Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against San Mateo County (around 34%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Encinal Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.2%, the actual is 75.0%, a residual of +4.8 points.

Across the wider county, San Mateo County reports that the typical household earns roughly $158,855 per year, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Encinal Elementary is one of 176 public schools in San Mateo County (combined enrollment of about 82,403 students).

The closest other public school is Menlo-Atherton High, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Encinal Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 46.4%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Encinal Elementary has declined 4%, going from 627 students in 2018 to 604 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 54% to 36% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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