Foster City Elementary

Located at 461 Beach Park Blvd., in Foster City, California, Foster City Elementary is a mid-sized elementary-level community that hosts 624 students (grades K through 5), part of San Mateo-Foster City. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Foster City Elementary sits 34% above that benchmark.

Within San Mateo-Foster City, which oversees 22 schools and 9,906 students, Foster City Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Foster City Elementary lists that 60% of the student body identifies as Asian. Other groups include 17% White, 11% multiracial, 10% Hispanic. By comparison, San Mateo County as a whole is about 31% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Foster City Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 12% of students at Foster City Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than San Mateo County's rate of about 34%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Foster City Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.3%, the actual is 76.9%, a residual of +4.6 points.

Around the school, 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%. In all, San Mateo County runs 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,403 students), of which Foster City Elementary is one.

Beach Park 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. On composite proficiency, Foster City Elementary comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 61.7%.

Foster City Elementary operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Foster City Elementary has ticked down 30%, going from 894 students in 2018 to 624 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 25% to 17% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 25.5:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.