Summary:
Burlingame Public School has two listed schools serving prekindergarten through grade 12: Burlingame Elementary (PK–5, 142 students) and Burlingame Junior/Senior High (grades 6–12, 151 students). In 2025–26, both schools’ all-grades proficiency results were below state figures in ELA, math, and science; math was especially low, at 28% and 25% compared with 41% statewide. The most striking change was at Burlingame Elementary, where science proficiency fell from 55% in 2024–25 to 28% in 2025–26, shifting from 13 points above the state to 10 points below it.
Burlingame Junior/Senior High had the stronger all-grades ELA result, 40% versus 31% at Burlingame Elementary, a 10-point difference, though both were below the state’s 46%. Burlingame Elementary led in math, 28% to 25%, while Burlingame Junior/Senior High led in science, 35% to 28%; both schools were below state results in those subjects, too. Grade-level results reveal important exceptions: high school ELA proficiency reached 64% in sixth grade, 22 points above the state, but was 24% in seventh grade, 20 points below. SchoolDigger ranked the high school 203rd of 340 schools (40th percentile) and the elementary school 566th of 657 (14th percentile). Since the schools serve different grade spans, their all-grades results are not a like-for-like comparison.
Recent trends diverged: high school ELA rose 10 points, from 31% to 40%, while its math result edged up 1 point and science slipped 1 point. Elementary ELA was nearly unchanged, but math fell 10 points and science fell 27. Attendance also differed: chronic absenteeism was 24% at the high school and 13% at the elementary school, against 18% statewide. Basic school measures were similar—student-teacher ratios were 11.4 and 11.7, and free/reduced-lunch rates were 44% and 48%, respectively—so they offer context, not an explanation for results. One positive outcome at Burlingame Junior/Senior High was its 100% graduation rate, compared with 90% statewide.
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