Lafayette Elementary

Lafayette Elementary, a mid-tier K-5 school in San Francisco, California, overseen by San Francisco Unified, teaches 471 students, covering grades K through 5.

San Francisco Unified runs 106 schools in total, collectively educating 48,706 students. Lafayette Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Lafayette Elementary records that the largest single group is Asian at 37%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 26% White, 21% multiracial, 14% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.9:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 30% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below San Francisco County's rate of about 54%.

After controlling for student poverty, Lafayette Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 61.4%; Lafayette Elementary posts 79.7%, +18.2 points above that line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for San Francisco County put the typical household earns roughly $140,970 per year, 60% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, San Francisco County runs 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 56,505 students), of which Lafayette Elementary is one.

Washington (George) High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lafayette Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lafayette Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 67.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lafayette Elementary has edged down 12%, going from 538 students in 2018 to 471 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 27.6:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 in 2025.

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