Bowers Elementary

Bowers Elementary is a primary school of modestly sized scale in Santa Clara, California, operated by Santa Clara Unified, caters to 240 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 48% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Santa Clara Unified comprises 30 schools with combined enrollment of 14,411 students; Bowers Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Bowers Elementary shows that 54% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 28% Asian, 9% White, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Bowers Elementary reports 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 60% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Santa Clara County (around 37%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bowers Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.0%, the actual is 46.2%, a residual of +2.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, Santa Clara County reports that median household earnings sit near $164,281, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Bowers Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Juan Cabrillo Middle, around 0.2 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), Bowers Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 45.4%.

Bowers Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 12%: 274 students in 2018 compared to 240 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share edged up from 19% to 28%. Class-load math has fell: from 27.4:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Bowers Elementary typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.