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Enrollment
350
Elementary
DISTRICT 493 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CUPERTINO UNION·NCES 061029001146
Chester W. Nimitz Elementary
545 East Cheyenne Dr., Sunnyvale, CA 94087 · (408) 736-2180 · Santa Clara County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL350 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 81% of California public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-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
21.9:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.3:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
51%
177 students
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 65%
Community
1
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 | 68 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 58 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 55 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 42 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 72 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (68) is 6% smaller than its 5th grade class (72).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · 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
57.4%
CA avg 49.1% . +11.4pp since 2014
Math
58.8%
CA avg 37.7% . +7.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 11 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 8 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 34.0% | 23.5% | 22.2% | 20.4% |
| Math | 35.3% | 23.5% | 20.6% | 20.6% |
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 | 57.4% | 58.8% |
| 2023-24 | 60.6% | 59.8% |
| 2022-23 | 56.0% | 55.1% |
| 2021-22 | 58.4% | 54.3% |
| 2020-21 | 56.9% | 53.4% |
| 2018-19 | 63.0% | 63.0% |
| 2017-18 | 59.6% | 60.4% |
| 2016-17 | 51.9% | 61.3% |
| 2015-16 | 54.0% | 60.0% |
| 2014-15 | 46.0% | 51.0% |
% 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
60.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.9%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% 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 Chester W. Nimitz Elementary
Chester W. Nimitz Elementary's state test result (60.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chester W. Nimitz Elementary this school | 350 | 50.6% | 60.0% |
| Westlake Elementary Daly City | 321 | 54.5% | 38.7% |
| Elliott (William F) Elementary Artesia | 425 | 54.6% | 50.4% |
| Lincoln Elementary Torrance | 418 | 43.5% | 77.4% |
| Steve Luther Elementary La Palma | 403 | 58.1% | 56.0% |
| Margaret Pauline Brown Elementary Daly City | 303 | 48.2% | 45.0% |
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 Chester W. Nimitz Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Santa Clara County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #1,113 of 5,151 | #103 of 226 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.8% | #1,122 of 5,172 ▼ 92 | #102 of 226 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.4% | #1,507 of 5,172 ▼ 283 | #116 of 226 ▼ 14 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.7pp | #2,744 of 5,116 | #70 of 225 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 350 | #4,276 of 5,915 | #182 of 255 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.9:1 | #2,106 of 5,352 | #127 of 247 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.3% | #599 of 5,354 | #46 of 247 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.6% | #3,879 of 5,625 | #93 of 252 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -47.6% | #47 of 3,837 | #5 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
350
-167 (-32%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 513
Student : Teacher
21.9:1
was 23.5:1
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 | 350 | 16 | 21.9:1 | 51% (177) |
| 2023-24 | 399 | 17.6 | 22.7:1 | 48% (192) |
| 2022-23 | 419 | 18.4 | 22.8:1 | 49% (205) |
| 2020-21 | 517 | 22 | 23.5:1 | 25% (131) |
| 2017-18 | 668 | 25.1 | 26.6:1 | 22% (148) |
| 2015-16 | 721 | 29 | 24.9:1 | 19% (140) |
| 2010-11 | 687 | N/A | N/A | 23% (159) |
| 2000-01 | 555 | 26 | 21.4:1 | 18% (99) |
| 1990-91 | 513 | 19 | 27.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Chester W. Nimitz Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 48% (668 to 350); teachers down 36% (25.1 to 16).
About Chester W. Nimitz Elementary
In Sunnyvale, California, Chester W. Nimitz Elementary is a small elementary school. The school counted 350 students in 2024-25, covering kindergarten through 5. That puts enrollment 25% below the 465-student average for elementary schools in California.
Cupertino Union counts 13,526 students in its 23 schools, and Chester W. Nimitz Elementary is one of them.
The largest group at Chester W. Nimitz Elementary is Hispanic students, at 38%. Smaller groups are 35% Asian, 13% White, 11% multiracial, and 3% Black. For comparison, the population of Santa Clara County is roughly 25% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Chester W. Nimitz Elementary scores 70%.
Chester W. Nimitz Elementary has a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.9:1, with 16 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average ratio among elementary schools in California is similar, at 22.3:1. The school has 51% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Santa Clara County report 37%.
Chester W. Nimitz Elementary holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 81% of California public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Chester W. Nimitz Elementary is 10.1 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 60.0% actual, 49.9% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in California.
The county, Santa Clara County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $164,281, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 57% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. The county has 412 public schools and about 230,059 students.
Of the public schools around it, Chester W. Nimitz Elementary is closest to Community Day, about 0.4 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: Chester W. Nimitz Elementary ranks 7th of 8 nearby schools, at 60.0% versus a 72.0% average.
Chester W. Nimitz Elementary has an NCES locale of City: Mid-size.
In 2020-21, Chester W. Nimitz Elementary enrolled 517 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 350. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 23.5:1 to 21.9:1.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Chester W. Nimitz Elementary. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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
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- Warren E. Hyde MiddleMiddle · 800 students
Other schools in Sunnyvale
- Fremont HighHigh · 2,060 students
- Cupertino MiddleMiddle · 1,067 students
- Sunnyvale MiddleMiddle · 1,053 students
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- Ellis ElementaryElementary · 768 students
- Marian A. Peterson MiddleMiddle · 759 students
Nearby schools
- Community Day0.4 mi · 6
- Fremont High0.4 mi · 2,060
- Louis E. Stocklmeir Elementary0.6 mi · 840
- Homestead High1.0 mi · 2,224
- Garden Gate Elementary1.2 mi · 471
- Cupertino Middle1.3 mi · 1,067
Frequently asked questions
About Chester W. Nimitz ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Chester W. Nimitz Elementary?
Chester W. Nimitz Elementary enrolls approximately 350 students in grades KG-05.
Is Chester W. Nimitz Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Chester W. Nimitz Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Chester W. Nimitz Elementary have?
Chester W. Nimitz Elementary employs 16 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.9:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Chester W. Nimitz Elementary?
At Chester W. Nimitz Elementary, the student body is approximately 13% White, 38% Hispanic, 3% Black, 35% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Is Chester W. Nimitz Elementary public or private?
Chester W. Nimitz Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Cupertino Union.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.