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Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5

Spruce Elementary, South San Francisco, CA

CEP schoolSpruce Elementary is a public elementary school in South San Francisco, part of South San Francisco Unified. It enrolled 384 students in 2024-25, with 22.6 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
384
Teachers (FTE)
17.0
Students per teacher
22.6
Grades
K to 5

This school's ratio is 3.7 higher than the district figure of 18.9. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school22.6
District18.9
California21.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
501 Spruce Ave., South San Francisco, CA 94080
Phone
(650)877-8780
District
South San Francisco Unified
County
San Mateo County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Small
NCES school ID
063753006354
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
215
Reduced-price lunch
20
Free or reduced-price lunch
23561.2% of enrollment.
Direct certification
160Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other elementary schools in South San Francisco Unified

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.