Blackford Elementary

Blackford Elementary operates as an average-sized primary school in San Jose, California, part of Campbell Union. Current enrollment sits at 414 students spanning grades K through 5.

Across the 12 schools in Campbell Union (6,108 students total), Blackford Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Blackford Elementary logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 71%. The remainder comes out to 8% White, 7% Asian, 7% Black, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 57% 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 north of Santa Clara County's rate of about 37%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Blackford Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 45.5%; actual is 24.0%, a gap of -21.5 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Santa Clara County indicate the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Blackford Elementary is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

The closest other public school is Del Mar High, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Blackford Elementary at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 44.1%.

The school occupies an inner-city site. Blackford Elementary is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 21%: 522 students in 2018 compared to 414 in 2025.

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