Cadwallader Elementary

Cadwallader Elementary operates as a compact elementary school in San Jose, California, run under Evergreen Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 374 students spanning grades K through 6.

Evergreen Elementary comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 8,464 students; Cadwallader Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Cadwallader Elementary records that the most-represented group is Asian (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 34% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% White. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 41% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.4:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Cadwallader Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.7%, the actual is 61.6%, a residual of +7.9 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Santa Clara County shows the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Santa Clara County runs 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), of which Cadwallader Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Evergreen Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cadwallader Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 63.1%.

Cadwallader Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 8%: 345 students in 2018 compared to 374 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 23.4:1 in 2025.

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