Chaboya Middle

Located at 3276 Cortona Dr., in San Jose, California, Chaboya Middle is a reasonably sized 6-8 campus that instructs 815 students (grades 7 through 8), one of the schools within Evergreen Elementary. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Chaboya Middle sits 24% larger than that benchmark.

Chaboya Middle is one of 16 schools operated by Evergreen Elementary, a district that caters to 8,464 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Chaboya Middle shows that Asian students make up the majority at 74%. Beyond that, the school logs 14% Hispanic, 6% White, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 41% Asian, putting the school's mix considerably more Asian than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Around 16% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Santa Clara County (around 37%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Chaboya Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.7%, the actual is 79.6%, a residual of +9.9 points.

Around the school, Santa Clara County reports that the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Santa Clara County's 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), Chaboya Middle is one campus in the mix.

Tom Matsumoto Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 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 Chaboya Middle at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 72.9%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Chaboya Middle has declined 26%, going from 1,106 students in 2018 to 815 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 9% to 14%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.3:1 in 2018 to 22.6:1 today.

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