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Enrollment
465
Elementary
DISTRICT 500 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUNNYVALE·NCES 063846006456
Bishop Elementary
450 North Sunnyvale Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94085 · (408) 522-8229 · Santa Clara County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL465 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 32% 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.
- FBeats 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
18.2:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
199 students
DISTRICT 25% · STATE 65%
Community
6
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 | 112 | 24% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (112) is 84% larger than its 5th grade class (61).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
42.6%
CA avg 49.1% . +5.6pp since 2014
Math
36.9%
CA avg 37.7% . -3.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 6 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 3 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 19.5% | 23.2% | 19.5% | 37.9% |
| Math | 16.7% | 20.2% | 27.3% | 35.9% |
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 | 42.6% | 36.9% |
| 2023-24 | 34.2% | 29.8% |
| 2022-23 | 30.9% | 28.5% |
| 2021-22 | 29.9% | 22.8% |
| 2018-19 | 46.5% | 32.7% |
| 2017-18 | 44.8% | 40.8% |
| 2016-17 | 39.8% | 35.7% |
| 2015-16 | 39.0% | 36.0% |
| 2014-15 | 37.0% | 40.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
36.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.5%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 54% 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.
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 Bishop Elementary
Bishop Elementary's state test result (36.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bishop Elementary this school | 465 | 42.8% | 36.0% |
| Casillas (Joseph) Elementary Chula Vista | 431 | 45.2% | 50.5% |
| Chula Vista Hills Elementary Chula Vista | 430 | 48.4% | 59.5% |
| Sunnyside Elementary Bonita | 434 | 38.5% | 56.7% |
| Parkview Elementary Chula Vista | 403 | 44.7% | 64.2% |
| Clear View Chula Vista | 513 | 38.4% | 58.0% |
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 Bishop Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Santa Clara County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #2,868 of 5,151 | #163 of 226 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.9% | #2,559 of 5,172 ▲ 535 | #155 of 226 ▲ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.6% | #2,679 of 5,172 ▲ 635 | #149 of 226 ▲ 22 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +13.4pp | #277 of 5,116 | #5 of 225 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 465 | #2,854 of 5,915 | #98 of 255 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.2:1 | #298 of 5,352 | #18 of 247 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.4% | #2,807 of 5,354 | #147 of 247 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.8% | #4,219 of 5,625 | #109 of 252 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.1% | #3,320 of 3,837 | #173 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
465
+52 (+13%) vs 2020
-2% since 1990-91, when it was 473
Student : Teacher
18.2:1
was 21.7:1
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 | 465 | 25.6 | 18.2:1 | 43% (199) |
| 2023-24 | 446 | 23.5 | 19.0:1 | 44% (198) |
| 2022-23 | 452 | 22.5 | 20.1:1 | 56% (255) |
| 2020-21 | 413 | 19 | 21.7:1 | 40% (165) |
| 2017-18 | 490 | 23 | 21.3:1 | 72% (353) |
| 2015-16 | 592 | 26 | 22.8:1 | 73% (433) |
| 2010-11 | 623 | N/A | N/A | 80% (501) |
| 2000-01 | 695 | 34 | 20.4:1 | 46% (320) |
| 1990-91 | 473 | 19 | 24.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bishop Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (490 to 465); teachers up 11% (23 to 25.6).
About Bishop Elementary
Bishop Elementary is classified as an elementary school. It is located in Sunnyvale, California. A total of 465 students attend the school, which covers kindergarten through 5.
The district for Bishop Elementary is Sunnyvale, with 10 schools and 5,753 students.
By race and ethnicity, Bishop Elementary is 69% Hispanic. It is also 14% Asian, 8% White, and 5% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Santa Clara County is roughly 25% Hispanic. Bishop Elementary has a diversity index of 49%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Federal data list 25.6 full-time-equivalent teachers at Bishop Elementary in 2024-25, for a ratio of 18.2:1. Among elementary schools in California, the typical ratio is 22.3:1. The lunch program counts 43% of students at Bishop Elementary as eligible for free or reduced-price meals.
allk12 grades Bishop Elementary a C. The grade compares the school only with California public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
A school in California with Bishop Elementary's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 54.5%. Bishop Elementary scores 36.0%.
Across Santa Clara County, median household income is about $164,281, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 57% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. The public schools of Santa Clara County number 412 and enroll about 230,059.
Columbia Middle is the closest public school, about 0.5 miles away in a straight line. Bishop Elementary is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Bishop Elementary comes in 7th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Mid-size, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment up 13%, from 413 to 465. The number of students per teacher fell from 21.7 to 18.2 over 4 years.
Posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater are welcome on this page. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
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 Sunnyvale
- Sunnyvale MiddleMiddle · 1,053 students
- Ellis ElementaryElementary · 768 students
- Columbia MiddleMiddle · 697 students
- Cherry Chase ElementaryElementary · 622 students
- Cumberland ElementaryElementary · 586 students
- Vargas ElementaryElementary · 435 students
Other schools in Sunnyvale
- Fremont HighHigh · 2,060 students
- Cupertino MiddleMiddle · 1,067 students
- Sunnyvale MiddleMiddle · 1,053 students
- Louis E. Stocklmeir ElementaryElementary · 840 students
- Ellis ElementaryElementary · 768 students
- Marian A. Peterson MiddleMiddle · 759 students
Other Bishop Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 4 states are named Bishop Elementary. Bishop Elementary is the 4th largest of the 6.
- Bishop ElementaryBishop, CA · 832 students
- Bishop Elementary SchoolROCHESTER, MN · 545 students
- Bishop Elementary SchoolYPSILANTI, MI · 486 students
- Bishop Elementary SchoolEVERMAN, TX · 341 students
- Bishop Elementary SchoolBISHOP, TX · 232 students
Nearby schools
- Columbia Middle0.5 mi · 697
- San Miguel Elementary0.9 mi · 431
- Ellis Elementary1.2 mi · 768
- Vargas Elementary1.4 mi · 435
- Lakewood Elementary1.4 mi · 372
- Braly Elementary1.6 mi · 381
Frequently asked questions
About Bishop ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Bishop Elementary?
Bishop Elementary enrolls approximately 465 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Bishop Elementary serve?
Bishop Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Bishop Elementary?
Approximately 18.2:1 students per teacher at Bishop Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Bishop Elementary?
At Bishop Elementary, the student body is approximately 8% White, 69% Hispanic, 2% Black, 14% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Bishop Elementary public or private?
Bishop Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Sunnyvale.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.