Margaret Pauline Brown Elementary

Margaret Pauline Brown Elementary is a small primary school in Daly City, California, one of the schools within Jefferson Elementary. The school works with 303 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 35% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Jefferson Elementary comprises 20 schools with combined enrollment of 8,072 students; Margaret Pauline Brown Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Margaret Pauline Brown Elementary records that 44% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 37% Hispanic, 11% White, 6% multiracial. By comparison, San Mateo County as a whole is about 31% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Margaret Pauline Brown Elementary records 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of San Mateo County's rate of about 34%.

After controlling for student poverty, Margaret Pauline Brown Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.8%, the actual is 47.0%, a residual of -3.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for San Mateo County indicate median household income runs about $158,855, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, San Mateo County runs 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,403 students), of which Margaret Pauline Brown Elementary is one.

Westmoor High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Margaret Pauline Brown Elementary. On composite proficiency, Margaret Pauline Brown Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.4%.

Margaret Pauline Brown Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 3%: 311 students in 2018 compared to 303 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 20.7:1 in 2018 to 21.8:1 in 2025.

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