Adrian Wilcox High

Set in Santa Clara, California, Adrian Wilcox High is a sizable high school, overseen by Santa Clara Unified. It instructs 1,614 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 93% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Within Santa Clara Unified, which oversees 30 schools and 14,411 students, Adrian Wilcox High is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Adrian Wilcox High lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 38% Asian, 15% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 87 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 26% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Santa Clara County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Adrian Wilcox High is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 64.0%; Adrian Wilcox High posts 48.9%, -15.1 points below that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Santa Clara County indicate the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Santa Clara County's 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), Adrian Wilcox High is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Briarwood Elementary, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Adrian Wilcox High comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 47.6%.

Adrian Wilcox High operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 18%: 1,966 students in 2018 compared to 1,614 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 20% to 15% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.8:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 today.

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