Briarwood Elementary

Located at 1930 Townsend Ave., in Santa Clara, California, Briarwood Elementary is an intimate elementary-level community that caters to 288 students (grades K through 5), run under Santa Clara Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 38% smaller than the state mean of about 465.

Within Santa Clara Unified, which oversees 30 schools and 14,411 students, Briarwood Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Briarwood Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 48%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest is composed of 31% Asian, 14% White, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 40% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Briarwood Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.7%; this one delivers 46.6%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Santa Clara County indicate median household income runs about $164,281, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Santa Clara County runs 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), of which Briarwood Elementary is one.

New Valley Continuation High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Briarwood Elementary at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 47.8%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Briarwood Elementary has shrank 13%, going from 331 students in 2018 to 288 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 23.5:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Briarwood Elementary community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.