With a total enrollment of approximately 12,500 students (in 2015–16),[4] it is the largest school district in San Mateo County.

[9] Final voting showed support for Measure P in Foster City was outweighed by opposition in San Mateo.

[10] Measure X was passed in November 2015,[11] and committed to:[12] The school at Charter Square is anticipated to be completed in early 2019 at an estimated (in 2016) cost of US$61,000,000 (equivalent to $77,440,000 in 2023).

[14] In November 2018, the District announced that due to the rising cost of construction, the elementary school at Charter Square would not be built, but acquisition of the land from developer Westlake Urban, who had previously operated a shopping mall at the site, would continue.

The final cost of the acquisition and the construction was estimated to exceed the total project $61 M budget by $11 M. The final cost of land acquisition is anticipated to be $30.1 M.[15] Measure Y, proposing an extension of an existing parcel tax which generated $7 million annually, failed to reach the two-thirds supermajority required to pass in an all-mail ballot held in March 2017.