San Mateo Park Elementary

San Mateo Park Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary campus in San Mateo, California, run under San Mateo-Foster City. The school educates 340 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 27% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, San Mateo Park Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (86%). Other groups include 5% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, San Mateo County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), San Mateo Park Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 41.6%; San Mateo Park Elementary posts 15.1%, -26.5 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for San Mateo County shows median household earnings sit near $158,855, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. San Mateo Park Elementary is one of 176 public schools in San Mateo County (combined enrollment of about 82,403 students).

The closest other public school is South Hillsborough, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, San Mateo Park Elementary comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 75.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. San Mateo Park Elementary's enrollment has declined 12% since 2018, when it stood at 386 (now 340). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 69% to 86%.

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