Nesbit Elementary

Set in Belmont, California, Nesbit Elementary is a moderately sized K-5 school, operated by Belmont-Redwood Shores Elementary. It works with 566 students across grades K through 8. That puts it 22% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Nesbit Elementary is one of 7 schools operated by Belmont-Redwood Shores Elementary, a district that teaches 3,914 students overall.

Demographically, Nesbit Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (32%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 27% Asian, 19% White, 17% multiracial, 3% Black.

On the resource side, Nesbit Elementary reports 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Nesbit Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 27% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Nesbit Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.4%, the actual is 55.8%, a residual of -7.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for San Mateo County indicate the typical household earns roughly $158,855 per year, 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 Nesbit Elementary is one.

Central Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Nesbit Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Nesbit Elementary at 6th of 6; the average score across the group is 79.9%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 13%: 654 students in 2018 compared to 566 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 35% to 19% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 20.8:1 in 2025.

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