Sunnybrae Elementary

Sunnybrae Elementary operates as a compact primary school in San Mateo, California, operated by San Mateo-Foster City. Current enrollment sits at 346 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 26% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

San Mateo-Foster City comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 9,906 students; Sunnybrae Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Sunnybrae Elementary lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 76% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 8% Asian, 7% multiracial, 6% White, 3% Pacific Islander. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Sunnybrae Elementary has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 75% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, San Mateo County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Sunnybrae Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 34.7%; this one comes in at 18.6%, -16.1 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (San Mateo County) records 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. Across San Mateo County's 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,403 students), Sunnybrae Elementary is one campus in the mix.

LEAD Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sunnybrae Elementary. On composite proficiency, Sunnybrae Elementary comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 50.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 22%: 444 students in 2018 compared to 346 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 70% to 76% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.7:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 in 2025.

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