Fox Elementary

Fox Elementary is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in Belmont, California, operated by Belmont-Redwood Shores Elementary, with 420 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Belmont-Redwood Shores Elementary runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,914 students. Fox Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Fox Elementary shows that the largest single group is Asian at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 22% White, 19% multiracial, 9% Hispanic. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

On the resource side, On paper, Fox Elementary has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Fox Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 6% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, San Mateo County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Fox Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 75.8%, the actual is 82.7%, a residual of +6.9 points.

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

Ralston Intermediate 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 Fox Elementary at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 54.9%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fox Elementary has shrank 15%, going from 493 students in 2018 to 420 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 41% to 22%. Class-load math has grew: from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 25.9:1 in 2025.

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