Bridges Academy

As a close-knit 6-8 campus in San Jose, California, Bridges Academy educates 274 students from grades 7 through 8, one of the schools within Franklin-McKinley Elementary. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Bridges Academy sits 58% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Franklin-McKinley Elementary, which oversees 16 schools and 5,663 students, Bridges Academy is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Bridges Academy logs that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder reads as 20% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Bridges Academy logs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Santa Clara County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Bridges Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 26.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 20.8%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Santa Clara County indicate 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%. Bridges Academy is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

Nearest neighbor: ACE Esperanza Middle, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bridges Academy at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 36.0%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 28%: 378 students in 2018 compared to 274 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment declined from 33% to 20% over that span.

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