West Marin Elementary

Located at 11550 Highway 1, in Point Reyes Station, California, West Marin Elementary is a micro-enrollment 6-8 campus that enrolls 114 students (grades 2 through 8), part of Shoreline Unified. That puts it 83% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Within Shoreline Unified, which oversees 5 schools and 469 students, West Marin Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, West Marin Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 66% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 32% White. The wider county runs roughly 20% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, West Marin Elementary records 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting West Marin Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Marin County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, West Marin Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.6%, the actual is 38.5%, a residual of +2.9 points.

In the area at large, census data for Marin County shows the typical household earns roughly $149,091 per year, roughly 61% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Marin County's 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,867 students), West Marin Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Inverness Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.5 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), West Marin Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 56.5%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 21%: 145 students in 2018 compared to 114 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 54% to 66% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.

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