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Does Cedar Grove Elementary have enough mental health and stress support?
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Enrollment
493
Elementary
DISTRICT 485 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EVERGREEN ELEMENTARY·NCES 061314001491
Cedar Grove Elementary
2702 Sugar Plum Dr., San Jose, CA 95148 · (408) 270-4958 · Santa Clara County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL493 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 61% of California public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
23.5:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.4:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
238 students
DISTRICT 36% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 90 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 56 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 54 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 80 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 96 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is 6% smaller than its 6th grade class (96).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
53.7%
CA avg 49.1% . +8.7pp since 2014
Math
47.9%
CA avg 37.7% . +13.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 14 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 27.5% | 26.1% | 24.0% | 22.3% |
| Math | 28.0% | 19.9% | 28.0% | 24.1% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.7% | 47.9% |
| 2023-24 | 53.6% | 45.4% |
| 2022-23 | 45.9% | 44.9% |
| 2021-22 | 49.7% | 39.2% |
| 2018-19 | 53.2% | 44.1% |
| 2017-18 | 49.3% | 41.0% |
| 2016-17 | 48.1% | 38.3% |
| 2015-16 | 49.0% | 38.0% |
| 2014-15 | 45.0% | 34.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
50.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.3%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Cedar Grove Elementary
Cedar Grove Elementary's state test result (50.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedar Grove Elementary this school | 493 | 48.3% | 50.0% |
| Rolling Ridge Elementary Chino Hills | 586 | 50.3% | 77.4% |
| Brier Elementary Fremont | 585 | 53.8% | 41.9% |
| Alpha: Cornerstone Academy Preparatory San Jose | 554 | 55.2% | N/A |
| Alexander Rose Elementary Milpitas | 518 | 56.2% | 47.0% |
| Cadwallader Elementary San Jose | 374 | 43.3% | 60.8% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Cedar Grove Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Santa Clara County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #1,718 of 5,151 | #128 of 226 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.9% | #1,725 of 5,172 ▲ 66 | #127 of 226 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.7% | #1,777 of 5,172 ▼ 137 | #127 of 226 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.3pp | #1,289 of 5,116 | #21 of 225 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 493 | #2,522 of 5,915 | #85 of 255 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.5:1 | #3,345 of 5,352 | #176 of 247 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.8% | #1,942 of 5,354 | #115 of 247 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.3% | #3,986 of 5,625 | #97 of 252 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.4% | #1,379 of 3,837 | #100 of 189 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
493
-63 (-11%) vs 2020
-35% since 1990-91, when it was 762
Student : Teacher
23.5:1
was 23.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 493 | 21 | 23.5:1 | 48% (238) |
| 2023-24 | 522 | 21 | 24.9:1 | 30% (159) |
| 2022-23 | 541 | 22 | 24.6:1 | 47% (254) |
| 2020-21 | 556 | 24 | 23.2:1 | 35% (196) |
| 2017-18 | 619 | 23 | 26.9:1 | 40% (250) |
| 2015-16 | 669 | 27 | 24.8:1 | 39% (258) |
| 2010-11 | 792 | N/A | N/A | 32% (254) |
| 2000-01 | 811 | 35 | 23.2:1 | 21% (173) |
| 1990-91 | 762 | 30 | 25.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cedar Grove Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (619 to 493); teachers down 9% (23 to 21).
About Cedar Grove Elementary
Cedar Grove Elementary is one of the public schools in San Jose, California. It is a mid-sized elementary school. It teaches 493 students in kindergarten through 6.
Cedar Grove Elementary is one school in Evergreen Elementary, a system of 16 schools with 8,464 students.
More than half of the students at Cedar Grove Elementary are Asian (55%). The rest of enrollment is 32% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 3% White. Census estimates put the Asian share of Santa Clara County's population at about 41%. The diversity index for Cedar Grove Elementary is 59%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Its staff includes 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 23.5 students per teacher. Compared with the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California, this school's ratio is higher. Roughly 48% of students at Cedar Grove Elementary can receive free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Santa Clara County, the average eligibility rate is 37%.
Among California public elementary schools, Cedar Grove Elementary outscored 61%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
The model predicts 51.3% for a school in California with Cedar Grove Elementary's free or reduced-price lunch share. Cedar Grove Elementary posts 50.0%.
Santa Clara County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $164,281 a year, roughly 57% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Santa Clara County number 412, with about 230,059 students.
Norwood Creek Elementary is about 0.3 miles from Cedar Grove Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Cedar Grove Elementary places 5th of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Cedar Grove Elementary is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels City: Large.
The school's student count decreased 11% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
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Santa Clara County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,902,047
Census ACS
Median income
$164,281
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
412
230,059 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Evergreen Elementary
- Quimby Oak MiddleMiddle · 857 students
- Chaboya MiddleMiddle · 815 students
- Tom Matsumoto ElementaryElementary · 727 students
- James Franklin Smith ElementaryElementary · 595 students
- Norwood Creek ElementaryElementary · 530 students
- Evergreen ElementaryElementary · 528 students
Other schools in San Jose
- Evergreen Valley HighHigh · 2,703 students
- Independence HighHigh · 2,289 students
- Silver Creek HighHigh · 2,139 students
- Santa Teresa HighHigh · 2,134 students
- Piedmont Hills HighHigh · 1,918 students
- Leigh HighHigh · 1,884 students
Other Cedar Grove Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 10 states are named Cedar Grove Elementary. Cedar Grove Elementary is the 7th largest of the 10.
- Cedar Grove Elementary SchoolTOMS RIVER, NJ · 931 students
- Cedar Grove ElementarySmyrna, TN · 856 students
- Cedar Grove ElementaryWilliamston, SC · 596 students
- Cedar Grove Elementary SchoolEllenwood, GA · 531 students
- Cedar Grove Elementary SchoolLIVINGSTON, TX · 513 students
Nearby schools
- Norwood Creek Elementary0.3 mi · 530
- Quimby Oak Middle0.7 mi · 857
- Holly Oak Elementary0.9 mi · 445
- Millbrook Elementary1.0 mi · 503
- Evergreen Valley High1.0 mi · 2,703
- Valle Vista Elementary1.0 mi · 204
Frequently asked questions
About Cedar Grove ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Cedar Grove Elementary?
Cedar Grove Elementary enrolls approximately 493 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Cedar Grove Elementary serve?
Cedar Grove Elementary serves grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Cedar Grove Elementary have?
Cedar Grove Elementary employs 21 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 23.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Cedar Grove Elementary?
Student demographics at Cedar Grove Elementary are roughly 3% White, 32% Hispanic, 1% Black, 55% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Cedar Grove Elementary in?
Cedar Grove Elementary is part of Evergreen Elementary.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.