Bracher Elementary

Bracher Elementary is one of the low-enrollment elementary campuss in Santa Clara, California, operated by Santa Clara Unified, with 269 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Bracher Elementary sits 42% leaner than that benchmark.

Santa Clara Unified runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 14,411 students. Bracher Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Bracher Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 21% Asian, 11% White, 8% multiracial, 6% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

In terms of school funding signals, Bracher Elementary logs 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Bracher Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 33% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Bracher Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 59.6%; this one comes in at 42.3%, -17.3 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Santa Clara County indicate median household income runs about $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 Bracher Elementary is one.

Bowers Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bracher Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 44.3%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 22%: 344 students in 2018 compared to 269 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 18% to 11% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 25.4:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 in 2025.

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