Parkside Montessori

Parkside Montessori operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in San Mateo, California, operated by San Mateo-Foster City. Current enrollment sits at 418 students spanning grades K through 8.

San Mateo-Foster City runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 9,906 students. Parkside Montessori is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Parkside Montessori logs that the most-represented group is White (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 29% Asian, 21% Hispanic, 13% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, The school reports having 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 18% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against San Mateo County (around 34%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Parkside Montessori performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.0%, the actual is 65.9%, a residual of -3.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, San Mateo County reports that the typical household earns roughly $158,855 per year, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Parkside Montessori is one of 176 public schools in San Mateo County (combined enrollment of about 82,403 students).

Nearest neighbor: Bayside Academy, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Parkside Montessori ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 43.8%.

Parkside Montessori operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 105%: 204 students in 2018 compared to 418 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Parkside Montessori typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.