Fiesta Gardens International Elementary

As a medium-sized elementary school in San Mateo, California, Fiesta Gardens International Elementary hosts 418 students from grades K through 5, operated by San Mateo-Foster City.

San Mateo-Foster City comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 9,906 students; Fiesta Gardens International Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Fiesta Gardens International Elementary reports that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 12% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, San Mateo County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.0:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, San Mateo County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Fiesta Gardens International Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.1%, the actual is 32.4%, a residual of -13.8 points.

In the broader community, census data for San Mateo County shows the typical household earns roughly $158,855 per year, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Fiesta Gardens International Elementary is one of 176 public schools in San Mateo County (combined enrollment of about 82,403 students).

The closest other public school is Parkside Montessori, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fiesta Gardens International Elementary. On composite proficiency, Fiesta Gardens International Elementary comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Fiesta Gardens International Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 22% since 2018, when it stood at 535 (now 418). Class-load math has fell: from 24.3:1 in 2018 to 22.0:1 in 2025.

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