Roy Cloud Elementary

Roy Cloud Elementary is a K-5 school of reasonably sized scale in Redwood City, California, part of Redwood City Elementary, teacheing 636 students in grades K through 8. That puts it 37% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Roy Cloud Elementary is one of 12 schools operated by Redwood City Elementary, a district that educates 6,378 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Roy Cloud Elementary logs that White students make up the majority at 56%. Beyond that, the school records 22% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 9% Asian. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 38%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.9:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 14% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of San Mateo County's rate of about 34%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Roy Cloud Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 70.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.3%.

Zooming out to the county, San Mateo County reports that median household earnings sit near $158,855, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Roy Cloud Elementary is one.

Roosevelt Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Roy Cloud Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 35.2%.

Roy Cloud Elementary operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. Roy Cloud Elementary's enrollment has contracted 11% since 2018, when it stood at 718 (now 636). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 63% to 56%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.9:1 in 2018 to 18.9:1 today.

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