Schools

Lomita Park students actually attend a Millbrae District elementary school, Lomita Park Elementary (852 API, 6 out of 10 Great Schools, 316 students) before joining their San Bruno neighbors at Parkside Intermediate School, which has 516 students in grades 6through 8, a Great Schools rating of 7 out of 10 and an API of 785, then finish at Capuchino High School or Peninsula Alternative High School.

History

Once part of Rancho Buri Buri, what is now Lomita Park was once the possession of noted Peninsula pioneer Ansel L. Easton. In 1904, the land between El Camino Real and the Interurban San Francisco to San Mateo rail line was platted (with streets named after saints), divided into city lots and sold by the Selby Rogers Company. After that, according to Roy W.Cloud in his 1928 work, “The Story of San Mateo County, California,” “…almost immediately a choice subdivision and a number of beautiful homes sprang up.”

The community existed independently for 50 years, adding a post office in 1927, at which time,according to Cloud, it had a population of “about 500.” In 1951, two years after the Interurban ceased running, a majority of Lomita Park residents voted to become part of San Bruno. However, infighting among the residents stretched the process out for three years. It wasn’t until1954 that Lomita Park, the unincorporated community, officially became Lomita Park, the neighborhood in San Bruno.