Blue Hills Elementary

Blue Hills Elementary is a K-5 school of medium-sized scale in Saratoga, California, operated by Cupertino Union, works with 424 students in grades K through 5.

Blue Hills Elementary is one of 23 schools operated by Cupertino Union, a district that enrolls 13,526 students overall.

On demographics, Blue Hills Elementary lists that Asian students make up the majority at 72%. The remainder breaks down as 12% White, 10% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 41% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Blue Hills Elementary has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Blue Hills Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 16% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Santa Clara County's rate of about 37%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Blue Hills Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.8%, the actual is 83.2%, a residual of +13.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, Santa Clara County reports that the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Santa Clara County's 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), Blue Hills Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: John Muir Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Blue Hills Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 84.4%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 33%: 319 students in 2018 compared to 424 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share fell from 78% to 72%. Class-load math has loosened: from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 23.4:1 in 2025.

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