Bagby Elementary

Bagby Elementary is a K-5 school of medium-sized scale in San Jose, California, one of the schools within Cambrian, hosting 529 students in grades K through 5.

Bagby Elementary is one of 6 schools operated by Cambrian, a district that teaches 3,111 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bagby Elementary shows that the most-represented group is White (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 30% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 14% multiracial, 3% Black.

On the resource side, The school reports having 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 15% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Santa Clara County's rate of about 37%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bagby Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.6%, the actual is 70.1%, a residual of -0.5 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Santa Clara County put 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. In all, Santa Clara County runs 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), of which Bagby Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Price Charter Middle, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bagby Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 58.1%.

Bagby Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 5%: 556 students in 2018 compared to 529 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 42% to 34% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 23.2:1 in 2018 to 21.2:1 today.

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