Anne Darling Elementary
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 16 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 15 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 17% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 37% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Anne Darling Elementary
Anne Darling Elementary, a compact elementary school in San Jose, California, operated by San Jose Unified, teaches 260 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 44% below the state mean of about 465.
Within San Jose Unified, which oversees 41 schools and 24,322 students, Anne Darling Elementary is one campus in the system.
On demographics, Anne Darling Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (85%). Beyond that, the school reports 8% Asian, 5% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.
In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Anne Darling Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 73% 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Anne Darling Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 36.7%; this one comes in at 17.3%, -19.4 points off the demographic line.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Santa Clara County indicate median household income runs about $164,281, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Santa Clara County runs 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), of which Anne Darling Elementary is one.
The closest other public school is Rocketship Discovery Prep, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
Anne Darling Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Anne Darling Elementary's enrollment has declined 36% since 2018, when it stood at 404 (now 260). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 79% to 85% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 today.
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