La Honda Elementary

La Honda Elementary is a tiny K-5 school in La Honda, California, part of La Honda-Pescadero Unified. The school hosts 65 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 86% smaller than typical.

La Honda-Pescadero Unified runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 272 students. La Honda Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, La Honda Elementary lists that 72% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 23% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 38%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, La Honda Elementary has 4 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 22% of students at La Honda Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, San Mateo County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, La Honda Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.7%; this one delivers 60.3%.

In the surrounding community, census data for San Mateo County shows median household income runs about $158,855, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. La Honda Elementary is one of 176 public schools in San Mateo County (combined enrollment of about 82,403 students).

Nearest neighbor: Corte Madera, around 4.8 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, La Honda Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 67.2%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 66 students in 2018 compared to 65 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 82% to 72% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 22.0:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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