Summary
Audubon Elementary in Foster City, California, serves 445 students in kindergarten through fifth grade. Its 2025–2026 proficiency rates are above those of the state and the San Mateo-Foster City district in English language arts, math and science. The most important finding is that these strong public-benchmark results do not make Audubon the local leader: among seven nearby K–5 schools, it ranks fourth in each subject.
Math is Audubon’s strongest result against the district and state, while ELA is its weakest relative result against those benchmarks. Audubon’s proficiency was 73% in math, 50% in the district and 38% statewide; its advantages were 23 and 35 percentage points. In ELA, Audubon’s 69% was 16 points above the district and 20 above the state; in science, its 63% was 18 and 27 points higher, respectively. Locally, Audubon was also above the averages for nearby K–5 schools in all three subjects, by 9 points in math, 7 in ELA and 8 in science. But excluding one much lower-scoring peer, Audubon fell just below the nearby-school medians in all three.
Results have improved overall since 2022–2023, especially in science, which gained 9 percentage points; ELA and math each rose 2 points. The latest year brought gains in all three subjects, with science up 12 points. SchoolDigger places Audubon at the 89th percentile statewide with four stars, up from the 83rd percentile the prior year; five nearby schools rank higher. In 2024–2025, its student-teacher ratio was 22.2:1, among the higher ratios nearby. That year, 21% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible, below the nearby-school average of 28%. SchoolDigger’s group rankings also show different statewide standings: Asian Students ranked at the 55th percentile in 2025–2026, compared with Audubon’s overall 89th, while Multi-racial Students rose from the 49th percentile to the 73rd from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026.
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