Alexander Rose Elementary

Set in Milpitas, California, Alexander Rose Elementary is a medium-sized elementary-level community, part of Milpitas Unified. It enrolls 518 students across grades K through 6.

Within Milpitas Unified, which oversees 15 schools and 10,076 students, Alexander Rose Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Alexander Rose Elementary logs that the largest single group is Asian at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 32% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% White. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Santa Clara County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Alexander Rose Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.0%, the actual is 47.8%, a residual of +1.8 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Santa Clara County) logs that median household income runs about $164,281, 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), Alexander Rose Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Robert Randall World Languages, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Alexander Rose Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Alexander Rose Elementary at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 58.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Alexander Rose Elementary has ticked up 6%, going from 487 students in 2018 to 518 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 24.5:1 today.

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