Enrollment
315
Elementary
DISTRICT 420 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAN RAFAEL CITY ELEMENTARY·NCES 063509005935
Glenwood Elementary
25 Castlewood Dr., San Rafael, CA 94901 · (415) 485-2430 · Marin County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL315 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 66% of California public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
21.0:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.2:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
74 students
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 77 | 24% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 36 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 53 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (77) is 45% larger than its 5th grade class (53).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Glenwood Elementary→James B. Davidson Middle
Based on grade levels within San Rafael City Elementary. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
67.1%
CA avg 49.1% . -5.9pp since 2014
Math
65.7%
CA avg 37.7% . -6.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 6 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 45.7% | 21.4% | 12.1% | 20.7% |
| Math | 38.6% | 27.1% | 12.9% | 21.4% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.1% | 65.7% |
| 2023-24 | 64.0% | 67.4% |
| 2022-23 | 62.4% | 71.8% |
| 2021-22 | 65.3% | 68.8% |
| 2020-21 | 59.8% | 57.9% |
| 2018-19 | 71.6% | 72.1% |
| 2017-18 | 74.2% | 68.2% |
| 2016-17 | 76.6% | 73.1% |
| 2015-16 | 80.0% | 81.0% |
| 2014-15 | 73.0% | 72.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
66.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.8%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Glenwood Elementary
Glenwood Elementary's state test result (66.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glenwood Elementary this school | 315 | 23.5% | 66.0% |
| Solana Vista Elementary Solana Beach | 317 | 22.7% | 74.1% |
| Golden Valley River Orangevale | 297 | 24.9% | N/A |
| Yerba Buena Elementary Agoura Hills | 372 | 22.6% | 69.5% |
| Aspen Elementary Thousand Oaks | 332 | 19.6% | 59.4% |
| Cosumnes River Elementary Sloughhouse | 350 | 26.6% | 70.0% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Glenwood Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Marin County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #836 of 5,151 | #18 of 34 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.7% | #794 of 5,172 ▼ 77 | #18 of 35 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.1% | #899 of 5,172 ▲ 116 | #19 of 35 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.6pp | #1,623 of 5,116 | #11 of 35 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 315 | #4,642 of 5,915 | #23 of 44 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.0:1 | #1,513 of 5,352 | #13 of 35 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.1% | #2,319 of 5,354 | #12 of 35 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.5% | #5,023 of 5,625 | #18 of 37 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.5% | #950 of 3,837 | #6 of 26 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
315
-31 (-9%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 328
Student : Teacher
21.0:1
was 23.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 315 | 15 | 21.0:1 | 23% (74) |
| 2023-24 | 315 | 15 | 21.0:1 | 26% (81) |
| 2022-23 | 307 | 14 | 21.9:1 | 20% (62) |
| 2020-21 | 346 | 15 | 23.1:1 | 22% (75) |
| 2017-18 | 417 | 17 | 24.5:1 | 18% (73) |
| 2015-16 | 445 | 19 | 23.4:1 | 15% (66) |
| 2010-11 | 391 | N/A | N/A | 13% (51) |
| 2000-01 | 381 | 19 | 20.1:1 | 12% (47) |
| 1990-91 | 328 | 14 | 23.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Glenwood Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (417 to 315); teachers down 12% (17 to 15).
About Glenwood Elementary
A low-enrollment elementary school in San Rafael, California, Glenwood Elementary is part of San Rafael City Elementary. The school offers kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 315 students. On average, elementary schools in California enroll around 465, and this school is 32% below that mark.
San Rafael City Elementary has 4,415 students in 9 schools, and Glenwood Elementary is one of those schools.
More than half of the students at Glenwood Elementary are White (63%). Next come 19% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, and 4% Asian. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 55%.
Glenwood Elementary has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 21.0:1. Elementary schools in California average 22.3:1, 1.3 more students per teacher than here. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 23% at Glenwood Elementary. Public schools in Marin County average 35%.
Glenwood Elementary earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 66% of California public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 65.8% for Glenwood Elementary. The school posts 66.0%, within a point of the prediction.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Marin County show that median household income comes to about $149,091, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 61% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Marin County counts 75 public schools with about 29,867 students.
San Pedro Elementary, about 0.9 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of Glenwood Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Glenwood Elementary is 1st of 8 nearby schools with test data.
NCES describes the area around Glenwood Elementary as City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment fell by 9% across 4 years, from 346 in 2020-21 to 315 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 23.1:1 to 21.0:1.
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Marin County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
257,969
Census ACS
Median income
$149,091
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
61%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
75
29,867 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in San Rafael City Elementary
- James B. Davidson MiddleMiddle · 1,052 students
- Venetia Valley K-8Elementary · 748 students
- Bahia Vista ElementaryElementary · 552 students
- Sun Valley ElementaryElementary · 523 students
- San Pedro ElementaryElementary · 469 students
- Coleman ElementaryElementary · 378 students
Other schools in San Rafael
- San Rafael HighHigh · 1,332 students
- Terra Linda HighHigh · 1,248 students
- James B. Davidson MiddleMiddle · 1,052 students
- Venetia Valley K-8Elementary · 748 students
- Miller Creek MiddleMiddle · 620 students
- Bahia Vista ElementaryElementary · 552 students
Other Glenwood Elementary schools
22 other US public schools in 16 states are named Glenwood Elementary. Glenwood Elementary is the 15th largest of the 23.
- Glenwood ElementarySacramento, CA · 481 students
- Glenwood ElementaryStockton, CA · 378 students
- Glenwood ElementaryThousand Oaks, CA · 218 students
- Glenwood ElementarySun Valley, CA · 189 students
- Glenwood ElementaryVirginia Beach, VA · 896 students
Nearby schools
- San Pedro Elementary0.9 mi · 469
- Bahia Vista Elementary1.6 mi · 552
- San Rafael High2.1 mi · 1,332
- Madrone High Continuation2.1 mi · 96
- Coleman Elementary2.3 mi · 378
- Venetia Valley K-82.8 mi · 748
Frequently asked questions
About Glenwood ElementaryHow many students attend Glenwood Elementary?
Glenwood Elementary enrolls approximately 315 students in grades KG-05.
Is Glenwood Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Glenwood Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Glenwood Elementary have?
Glenwood Elementary employs 15 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Glenwood Elementary?
Student demographics at Glenwood Elementary are roughly 63% White, 19% Hispanic, 1% Black, 4% Asian, 12% Two or more.
What district is Glenwood Elementary in?
Glenwood Elementary is part of San Rafael City Elementary.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.