Parkside Intermediate

Parkside Intermediate is a middle school of tight-knit scale in San Bruno, California, part of San Bruno Park Elementary, enrolling 491 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 25% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Within San Bruno Park Elementary, which oversees 5 schools and 2,001 students, Parkside Intermediate is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Parkside Intermediate logs that 54% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 26% Asian, 12% multiracial, 5% Pacific Islander, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Parkside Intermediate tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 68% of students at Parkside Intermediate qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above San Mateo County's rate of about 34%.

After controlling for student poverty, Parkside Intermediate performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.9%, the actual is 32.7%, a residual of -6.1 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for San Mateo County put 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 Parkside Intermediate is one.

Nearest neighbor: Allen (Decima M.) Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Parkside Intermediate. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Parkside Intermediate at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 52.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 40%: 816 students in 2018 compared to 491 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 20% to 0% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 34.0:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

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