A. J. Dorsa Elementary

A. J. Dorsa Elementary is a small elementary campus in San Jose, California, one of the schools within Alum Rock Union Elementary. The school teaches 284 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 39% leaner than the state mean of about 465.

Across the 22 schools in Alum Rock Union Elementary (7,251 students total), A. J. Dorsa Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, A. J. Dorsa Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (93%). The remainder reads as 5% Asian. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 90% of students at A. J. Dorsa Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Santa Clara County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), A. J. Dorsa Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.8%, the actual is 15.7%, a residual of -10.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for Santa Clara County shows the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Santa Clara County's 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), A. J. Dorsa Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is KIPP Heartwood Academy, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, A. J. Dorsa Elementary comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 19.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at A. J. Dorsa Elementary has contracted 23%, going from 371 students in 2018 to 284 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 23.2:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 in 2025.

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