Panorama Elementary

Panorama Elementary operates as a micro-enrollment K-5 school in Daly City, California, one of the schools within Brisbane Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 116 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Panorama Elementary sits 75% leaner than that benchmark.

Panorama Elementary is one of 3 schools operated by Brisbane Elementary, a district that teaches 484 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Panorama Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 33% Asian, 16% White, 9% multiracial. By comparison, San Mateo County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Panorama Elementary reports 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 35% of students at Panorama Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Panorama Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.5%; this one delivers 64.0%.

In the broader community, San Mateo County reports that the typical household earns roughly $158,855 per year, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Panorama Elementary is one of 176 public schools in San Mateo County (combined enrollment of about 82,403 students).

Guadalupe Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Panorama Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 31.2%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Panorama Elementary's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 114 (now 116). White enrollment moved from 20% to 16% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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