Fernando Rivera Intermediate

Located at 1255 Southgate Ave., in Daly City, California, Fernando Rivera Intermediate is an average-sized 6-8 campus that instructs 588 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Jefferson Elementary.

Fernando Rivera Intermediate is one of 20 schools operated by Jefferson Elementary, a district that works with 8,072 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Fernando Rivera Intermediate logs that the largest single group is Asian, at 65% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 24% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% White. By comparison, San Mateo County as a whole is about 31% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Fernando Rivera Intermediate shows 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Fernando Rivera Intermediate higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 37% of students at Fernando Rivera Intermediate qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fernando Rivera Intermediate sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.5%; this one delivers 46.7%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for San Mateo County put median household income runs about $158,855, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, San Mateo County runs 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,403 students), of which Fernando Rivera Intermediate is one.

The closest other public school is Thomas Edison Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fernando Rivera Intermediate. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fernando Rivera Intermediate ranks 5th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 46.1%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 18%: 499 students in 2018 compared to 588 in 2025.

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