Baldwin (Julia) Elementary

Baldwin (Julia) Elementary operates as a reasonably sized elementary campus in San Jose, California, run under Oak Grove Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 425 students spanning grades K through 6.

Across the 18 schools in Oak Grove Elementary (8,515 students total), Baldwin (Julia) Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Baldwin (Julia) Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 34% Asian, 10% multiracial, 9% White, 3% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.0:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Baldwin (Julia) Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.6%, the actual is 47.1%, a residual of -11.6 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Santa Clara County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, 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 Baldwin (Julia) Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Bernal Intermediate, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Baldwin (Julia) Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Baldwin (Julia) Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.1%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 12%: 379 students in 2018 compared to 425 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 22% to 34% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 27.1:1 in 2018 to 25.0:1 today.

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