Junipero Serra Elementary

Junipero Serra Elementary is a primary school of modestly sized scale in Daly City, California, one of the schools within South San Francisco Unified, hosting 286 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 38% smaller than typical.

South San Francisco Unified comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 7,644 students; Junipero Serra Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Junipero Serra Elementary logs that the largest single group is Asian, at 61% of enrollment; the rest looks like 23% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% White. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Junipero Serra Elementary reports 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.7:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Junipero Serra Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.1%; this one delivers 52.0%.

In the surrounding community, San Mateo County reports that the typical household earns roughly $158,855 per year, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Junipero Serra Elementary is one of 176 public schools in San Mateo County (combined enrollment of about 82,403 students).

The closest other public school is Summit Public School: Shasta, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Junipero Serra Elementary. On composite proficiency, Junipero Serra Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.4%.

Junipero Serra Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Junipero Serra Elementary's enrollment has edged down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 301 (now 286). Over the same period, the Asian share ticked down from 67% to 61%.

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