Enrollment
305
Elementary
DISTRICT 412 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAN JOSE UNIFIED·NCES 063459005698
Almaden Elementary
1295 Dentwood Dr., San Jose, CA 95118 · (408) 535-6207 · Santa Clara County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL305 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 47% of California public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.9:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 20.7:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
219 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 82 | 27% |
| Grade 1 | 34 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 43 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 47 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 49 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (82) is 67% larger than its 5th grade class (49).
Student demographics
42%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
39.3%
CA avg 49.1% . +14.3pp since 2014
Math
38.0%
CA avg 37.7% . +22.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 14 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 22 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 17.9% | 21.4% | 23.6% | 37.1% |
| Math | 12.7% | 25.4% | 31.0% | 31.0% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.3% | 38.0% |
| 2023-24 | 34.1% | 27.3% |
| 2022-23 | 30.2% | 26.9% |
| 2021-22 | 25.6% | 12.3% |
| 2020-21 | 25.4% | 14.9% |
| 2018-19 | 36.4% | 27.3% |
| 2017-18 | 38.6% | 30.7% |
| 2016-17 | 35.3% | 28.8% |
| 2015-16 | 41.0% | 21.0% |
| 2014-15 | 25.0% | 16.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
34.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.5%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Almaden Elementary
Almaden Elementary's state test result (34.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Almaden Elementary this school | 305 | 71.8% | 34.8% |
| Horace Mann Elementary San Jose | 293 | 74.4% | 18.1% |
| Serra (Junipero) Elementary San Francisco | 283 | 67.8% | 28.1% |
| Aspire Summit Charter Academy Modesto | 355 | 72.7% | N/A |
| San Altos Elementary Lemon Grove | 338 | 70.4% | 33.9% |
| Seventh Street Elementary Arts Integration Magnet San Pedro | 306 | 73.5% | 46.0% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Almaden Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Santa Clara County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.8% | #2,984 of 5,151 | #165 of 226 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #2,437 of 5,172 ▲ 923 | #152 of 226 ▲ 31 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.3% | #2,999 of 5,172 ▲ 334 | #158 of 226 ▲ 14 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +19.7pp | #66 of 5,116 | #2 of 225 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 305 | #4,721 of 5,915 | #206 of 255 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.9:1 | #896 of 5,352 | #60 of 247 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.5% | #3,339 of 5,354 | #172 of 247 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.8% | #2,850 of 5,625 | #48 of 252 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.9% | #3,547 of 3,837 | #180 of 189 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
305
+17 (+6%) vs 2020
-47% since 1990-91, when it was 578
Student : Teacher
19.9:1
was 24.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 305 | 15.3 | 19.9:1 | 72% (219) |
| 2023-24 | 312 | 16 | 19.5:1 | 75% (234) |
| 2022-23 | 295 | 12.5 | 23.6:1 | 69% (205) |
| 2020-21 | 288 | 12 | 24.0:1 | 66% (191) |
| 2017-18 | 314 | 13.9 | 22.7:1 | 78% (245) |
| 2015-16 | 368 | 14 | 26.3:1 | 79% (292) |
| 2010-11 | 430 | N/A | N/A | 81% (348) |
| 2000-01 | 407 | 23 | 17.7:1 | 66% (269) |
| 1990-91 | 578 | 26 | 22.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Almaden Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (314 to 305); teachers up 11% (13.9 to 15.3).
About Almaden Elementary
Almaden Elementary is the name of a small elementary school in San Jose, California. Its grade span covers kindergarten through 5, with 305 students on the rolls. That compares with an average of about 465 students for elementary schools in California.
Almaden Elementary is one of 41 schools in San Jose Unified, which enrolls 24,322 students in total.
About 75% of the student body at Almaden Elementary is Hispanic. Other students are 9% Asian, 7% White, 4% Black, and 4% multiracial. By comparison, Santa Clara County residents are about 25% Hispanic. A diversity index of 42% means there is a 42% chance two randomly chosen students at Almaden Elementary are from different groups.
Almaden Elementary reported 15.3 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 19.9:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in California is 22.3:1. There are 219 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 72% of enrollment. The rate at public schools in Santa Clara County averages 37%, lower than here.
Among California public elementary schools, Almaden Elementary outscored 47%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Almaden Elementary is -2.7 points: 34.8% actual, 37.5% predicted.
Census data for Santa Clara County show median household income comes to about $164,281, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. There are 412 public schools in the county, enrolling about 230,059, Almaden Elementary among them.
Almaden Elementary's closest public school neighbor is Pioneer High, about 0.3 miles away. Within five miles of Almaden Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. Of 8 schools in the immediate area with test results, Almaden Elementary ranks 8th on average proficiency.
NCES assigns Almaden Elementary the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal enrollment counts increased from 288 (2020-21) to 305 (2024-25). Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 19.9:1, from 24.0:1.
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Santa Clara County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,902,047
Census ACS
Median income
$164,281
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
412
230,059 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in San Jose Unified
- Abraham Lincoln HighHigh · 1,590 students
- Willow Glen HighHigh · 1,543 students
- Leland HighHigh · 1,471 students
- Pioneer HighHigh · 1,393 students
- Willow Glen MiddleMiddle · 1,180 students
- Herbert Hoover MiddleMiddle · 910 students
Other schools in San Jose
- Evergreen Valley HighHigh · 2,703 students
- Independence HighHigh · 2,289 students
- Silver Creek HighHigh · 2,139 students
- Santa Teresa HighHigh · 2,134 students
- Piedmont Hills HighHigh · 1,918 students
- Leigh HighHigh · 1,884 students
Nearby schools
- Pioneer High0.3 mi · 1,393
- John Muir Middle0.6 mi · 722
- Broadway High0.7 mi · 176
- Branham High0.8 mi · 1,820
- Reed Elementary1.0 mi · 356
- Dartmouth Middle1.1 mi · 903
Frequently asked questions
About Almaden ElementaryHow large is Almaden Elementary?
Almaden Elementary enrolls approximately 305 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Almaden Elementary serve?
Almaden Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Almaden Elementary?
Approximately 19.9:1 students per teacher at Almaden Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Almaden Elementary?
Student demographics at Almaden Elementary are roughly 7% White, 75% Hispanic, 4% Black, 9% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Almaden Elementary?
Almaden Elementary is overseen by San Jose Unified in Santa Clara County.
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