Captain Jason M. Dahl Elementary

Captain Jason M. Dahl Elementary is a primary school of medium-sized scale in San Jose, California, overseen by Franklin-McKinley Elementary, serveing 396 students in grades K through 6.

Franklin-McKinley Elementary comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 5,663 students; Captain Jason M. Dahl Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Captain Jason M. Dahl Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 76% of enrollment. Other groups include 19% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Captain Jason M. Dahl Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 86% of students at Captain Jason M. Dahl Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, 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, Captain Jason M. Dahl Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.5%; this one delivers 19.9%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Santa Clara County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Captain Jason M. Dahl Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Rocketship Rising Stars, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Captain Jason M. Dahl Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 28.7%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Captain Jason M. Dahl Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 30% since 2018, when it stood at 565 (now 396). Class-load math has widened: from 22.2:1 in 2018 to 24.0:1 in 2025.

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