Elementary · California
Ortega Elementary
Free meals for allOrtega Elementary, a public elementary school in Pacifica, California: grades k–5, 404 students, 21.3 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Pacifica.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 404
- Teachers (FTE)
- 19.0
- Students per teacher
- 21.3
- Grades
- K–5
- Elementary
Fewer students per teacher than 63% of elementary schools in California
Median 22.4 · 5,918 schools compared
More students per teacher than 90% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Smaller than 61% of elementary schools in California
Median 455 · 5,933 schools compared
Smaller than 52% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades K–5
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large suburb
- Run by
- Pacifica
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Pacifica.
Location
- Address
- 1283 Terra Nova Blvd., Pacifica, CA 94044
- Phone
- (650)738-6670
- City or town
- Pacifica
- County
- San Mateo County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Pacifica Independent Home StudyAlternative | K–8 | 12 | 12.5 |
Cabrillo ElementaryFree meals for all | K–8 | 524 | 22.5 |
Vallemar ElementaryFree meals for all | K–8 | 500 | 24.0 |
Portola ElementaryFree meals for all | K–6 | 378 | 27.0 |
John Muir ElementaryFree meals for all | K–6 | 486 | 28.9 |
| K–5 | 360 | 22.5 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
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