West Portal Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in San Francisco, California, West Portal Elementary serves 588 students from grades K through 5, part of San Francisco Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so West Portal Elementary sits 26% larger than that benchmark.

Within San Francisco Unified, which oversees 106 schools and 48,706 students, West Portal Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, West Portal Elementary reports that Asian students make up the majority at 58%. Beyond that, the school reports 17% White, 15% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 35% Asian, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Asian than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, West Portal Elementary reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.7:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 32% of students at West Portal Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against San Francisco County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), West Portal Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.3%, the actual is 68.8%, a residual of +8.5 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (San Francisco County) logs that median household earnings sit near $140,970, about 60% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, San Francisco County runs 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 56,505 students), of which West Portal Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Hoover (Herbert) Middle, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, West Portal Elementary comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 62.9%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. West Portal Elementary's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 583 (now 588). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 27.4:1 in 2018 to 23.7:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.