Las Lomitas Elementary

Las Lomitas Elementary is an elementary campus of middle-of-the-pack scale in Atherton, California, part of Las Lomitas Elementary, works with 522 students in grades K through 3.

Las Lomitas Elementary runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 1,134 students. Las Lomitas Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Las Lomitas Elementary reports that the largest single group is White at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 25% Asian, 18% Hispanic, 14% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 5% of students at Las Lomitas Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below San Mateo County's rate of about 34%.

After controlling for student poverty, Las Lomitas Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.4%, the actual is 80.3%, a residual of +3.9 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for San Mateo County indicate median household income runs about $158,855, 54% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, San Mateo County runs 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,403 students), of which Las Lomitas Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is La Entrada Middle, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Las Lomitas Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Las Lomitas Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 59.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Las Lomitas Elementary has held roughly steady, going from 532 students in 2018 to 522 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 50% to 42% across the same window.

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