Christopher Elementary

Located at 565 Coyote Rd., in San Jose, California, Christopher Elementary is a moderately sized K-5 school that enrolls 446 students (grades K through 8), one of the schools within Oak Grove Elementary.

Oak Grove Elementary runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 8,515 students. Christopher Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Christopher Elementary logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 76%. Beyond that, the school records 15% Asian, 5% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 64% of students at Christopher Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Santa Clara County (around 37%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Christopher Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 41.4%; actual is 18.5%, a gap of -23.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Santa Clara County shows the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Christopher Elementary is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

G. W. Hellyer Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Christopher Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 29.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Christopher Elementary has expanded 10%, going from 404 students in 2018 to 446 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged down from 83% to 76% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 26.9:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 today.

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