Beach Park Elementary: High scores, healthy climate, strong attendance. We looked for a catch — we didn't find one.
Beach Park posts 53.1% exceeding the standard — versus 21.4% statewide — with climate numbers better than most. That doesn't make it perfect. It makes it worth a visit to find what numbers can't measure.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth (2023 G3 → 2025 G5) | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 68 | 53% | 72% | Average · p55 | 9.5% | 0.5% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 39 | 21% | 43% | Average · p50 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Beach Park Elementary scores 68 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 93rd percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
Measures test performance, attendance, and climate — not arts, community, or your kid. How we score →
💪 Strong All-Around — Ask about what we don't score — class size, electives, the feel of a classroom — strong numbers everywhere on paper don't mean every classroom feels the same.
Most rating sites would stop at “72% proficient” and call it done. Beach Park deserves a closer read. It sits at the 93rd percentile of 5,721 California elementary schools — but the ranking is the least interesting thing on this page.
The headline number: 53.1% of students scored in the top band on the state test. The California average is 21.4%.
The seven-year arc
Has held the 93rd-percentile line every tested year since 2023.
| Grade | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 78% | 45% | 87% | 68% |
| Grade 4 | 74% | 69% | 64% | 70% |
| Grade 5 | — | 79% | 71% | 62% |
| Grade | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 79% | 80% | 85% | 77% |
| Grade 4 | 89% | 75% | 76% | 88% |
| Grade 5 | — | 86% | 70% | 69% |
The story this school is actually telling
The school, grade by grade
ELA · CAASPP 2024–25Different students, same year — each bar is one grade's proficiency mix.
The honest read: the share exceeding falls 11.5pp across grades; the floor slips 6.3pp. The state average rises 4.6pp over the same span. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
The 6 things our score weighs
California's own answer to the same question
California runs its own growth model, following individual children in grades 4 through 8 rather than comparing school-wide averages the way we do — and its two subjects part company here. It puts this school around the 13th percentile of California elementary schools in reading and the 87th in math; ours, which blends the subjects, lands around the 55th. A gap that size between math and reading in one building is worth asking about directly — one year of data can't tell you whether it is the teaching, the cohort, or noise.
— pts vs expected is scale-score points above or below what California's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores. It is not a percentage and not a percent of anything. A typical California elementary school lands at +2 in reading, and the middle half of them fall between −5 and +9 — the spread is wide, so read the rank, not the sign. CDE blends two consecutive years into each published figure, so adjacent years share input data and no year-over-year trend can honestly be drawn from them. It covers grades 4-8 only, and it is not part of the Scope Score — we assessed it and left it out: it tracks school demographics roughly three times as strongly as our own growth measure does, and one published year is not enough to test how stable it is.
Ask what the school is working on next. Strong numbers tell you where a school is, not where it's going.
- Ask what changes between grade 3 and grade 5 here, and who teaches the older kids.
- Ask whether the tour can step into a working classroom — watch how the teacher handles a student who's stuck.
- Ask to tour while school's in session, and notice how hallways and transitions feel — culture shows up between classes, not just in them.
- Ask how the school communicates with families when a child starts to struggle.
- Ask what a typical day looks like for a new student in the first few weeks.
How every group of students does here
At Beach Park Elementary in Foster City, 79.5% of asian students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 82.3% district-wide and 74.4% statewide. Beach Park Elementary trails its district average for asian students by 2.7 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Asian students (87.0% Math proficient). Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 44 students tested.
10 of 15 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Change in proficiency from the lowest tested grade — which groups gain ground the longer they stay. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Showing up, and staying in class
TK/K students miss school at roughly twice the rate of Grades 4–6 students (11.8% vs 5.1%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the earliest grades — worth asking how the school works with new families on attendance.
Where the path goes
The path below follows attendance boundaries — scores shown for each next step.
Estimated path based on proximity within the same district. Contact your school district for official feeder information.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$723 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.
The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.
District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.
Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →
The neighborhood it serves
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level
Transitional kindergarten is offered here — confirmed by actual Census Day enrollment, not just the listed grade span.
On the state's science test (CAST), 38% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 and once in high school, and it never enters the Scope Score.
Frequently asked questions
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Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 80
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and nearest schools.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 56 | 50% | 18% | 13% | 20% | 68% | +25 |
| Grade 4 | 30 | 57% | 13% | 13% | 17% | 70% | +25 |
| Grade 5 | 26 | 38% | 23% | 31% | 8% | 62% | +14 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 56 | 54% | 23% | 14% | 9% | 77% | +31 |
| Grade 4 | 32 | 63% | 25% | 6% | 6% | 88% | +46 |
| Grade 5 | 26 | 58% | 12% | 15% | 15% | 69% | +34 |
We show the grade rows CDE publishes for this school. A missing grade or dash can mean the school does not serve that grade, no valid result was published, or the tested group was too small to report. It does not mean zero.
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schoolwide | 26 | 23% | 15% | 54% | 8% |
CAST is tested in grades 5 and 8, then once in grade 10, 11, or 12. This row is the school's all-student aggregate. Not part of the Scope Score.
| Subgroup · ELA | Tested | MET+ | vs district | vs CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asian | 44 | 79.5% | −3 | +5 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Grade gap | Cohort growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beach Park Elementary ← | — | 68 | 53.1% | 72.2% | −6.9pp | +76 pts | 0.5% |
| College Park Elementary | 1.9 mi | 86 | 61.2% | 82.7% | +2.6pp | — | 0.1% |
| Central Elementary | 2.1 mi | 85 | 74.3% | 89.7% | −6.6pp | — | 0.9% |
| Redwood Shores Elementary | 1.8 mi | 69 | 56.6% | 79.9% | +6.6pp | — | 0.1% |
| California average | — | 39 | 21.4% | 42.7% | −2.9pp | — | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Grade gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 69 | 91 | #498 | 47.0% | 72.3% | 12.4% | 0.3% | +19.4pp |
| 2024 | 60 | 86 | #800 | 45.4% | 75.6% | 9.4% | 0.2% | -15.3pp |
| 2025 | 68 | 93 | #422 | 53.1% | 72.2% | 9.5% | 0.5% | -6.9pp |
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | — | 7.1% | — |
| Male | — | 9.6% | — |
| Asian | — | 4.8% | — |
| White | — | 0.0% | — |
| Hispanic/Latino | — | 19.7% | — |
| Two or More Races | — | 16.7% | — |
| Students with Disabilities | — | 30.4% | — |
| English Learners | — | 16.3% | — |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | — | 19.3% | — |
| All Students | — | 8.4% | — |
| Group | Reading | n | CDE band | Math | n | CDE band |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Students | −12 | 52 | Moderate | +16 | 52 | Accelerated |
| Asian | −15 | 25 | Moderate | +22 | 25 | Exceptional |
| English Learner | −12 | 20 | Moderate | +16 | 20 | Accelerated |
| English Only | −5 | 20 | not categorised | +18 | 20 | not categorised |
| Recently Reclassified Fluent-English Proficient Only | −4 | 15 | not categorised | +20 | 15 | not categorised |
| White | −1 | 11 | Average | +10 | 11 | Accelerated |
Whole scale-score points above or below what CDE's model predicted for these same children from their own prior-year scores — not a percentage, not a percentile. Statewide a typical school lands near +1 with a spread of about 13 points either side, so read a figure against its group's own typical value, not against zero. Muted rows have fewer than 30 students with a growth score — published by CDE, held back from the narrative sections above because at that size the figure swings about 17 points on its own. “Not categorised” is CDE assigning no band — English Only, Recently Reclassified, and English Learners Only receive a value and no band, for every school in the state. It is not a missing number. Most figures blend two consecutive years, so adjacent published years share input data and no trend line can honestly be drawn across them. A group absent from this table had fewer than 11 students with a growth score and was never published. Grades 4-8 only. None of this enters the Scope Score — it is more strongly correlated with school demographics than our own growth measure, and one published year is not enough to test its reliability.
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