Neil Cummins Elementary

Neil Cummins Elementary is one of the moderately sized elementary schools in Corte Madera, California, part of Larkspur-Corte Madera, with 451 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Within Larkspur-Corte Madera, which oversees 3 schools and 1,166 students, Neil Cummins Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Neil Cummins Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 69% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 17% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 2% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Marin County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Neil Cummins Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 8% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Marin County (around 35%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Neil Cummins Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.6%, the actual is 71.4%, a residual of -3.3 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Marin County indicate median household income runs about $149,091, roughly 61% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Marin County's 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,867 students), Neil Cummins Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: San Andreas High (Continuation), around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Neil Cummins Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 74.7%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 22%: 580 students in 2018 compared to 451 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 11% to 17% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.