Webster Elementary

Set in Malibu, California, Webster Elementary is a very small K-5 school, part of Santa Monica-Malibu Unified. It educates 178 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Webster Elementary sits 62% below that benchmark.

Santa Monica-Malibu Unified runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 8,616 students. Webster Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Webster Elementary lists that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 9% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Webster Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 6% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Webster Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 75.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 79.1%.

In the broader community, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Webster Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Malibu Elementary, around 6.2 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Webster Elementary at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 63.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 36%: 277 students in 2018 compared to 178 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 78% to 86% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 22.2:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.