Westborough Middle

Westborough Middle is an intermediate school of small scale in South San Francisco, California, run under South San Francisco Unified, educateing 498 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 24% below the state mean of about 659.

South San Francisco Unified runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 7,644 students. Westborough Middle is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Westborough Middle shows that the largest single group is Asian, at 60% of enrollment; the rest looks like 22% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 5% White, 2% Pacific Islander. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.2:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 27% of students at Westborough Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Westborough Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.2%; this one delivers 53.4%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for San Mateo County indicate median household earnings sit near $158,855, about 54% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across San Mateo County's 176 public schools (combined enrollment of about 82,403 students), Westborough Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Skyline Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Westborough Middle comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 55.5%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Westborough Middle's enrollment has declined 24% since 2018, when it stood at 654 (now 498). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.