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What's one thing Cumberland Elementary gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
586
Elementary
DISTRICT 500 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUNNYVALE·NCES 063846006459
Cumberland Elementary
824 Cumberland Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94087 · (408) 522-8255 · Santa Clara County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL586 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 92% 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.
- B+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
19.1:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
10%
57 students
DISTRICT 25% · 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 | 123 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 84 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 97 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 84 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 96 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 102 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (123) is 21% larger than its 5th grade class (102).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
79.8%
CA avg 49.1% . +2.8pp since 2014
Math
80.1%
CA avg 37.7% . -3.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 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 3 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 58.1% | 21.7% | 11.4% | 8.8% |
| Math | 58.3% | 21.7% | 10.9% | 9.1% |
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 | 79.8% | 80.1% |
| 2023-24 | 79.8% | 78.5% |
| 2022-23 | 77.6% | 73.9% |
| 2021-22 | 72.3% | 74.9% |
| 2018-19 | 85.8% | 82.9% |
| 2017-18 | 82.9% | 85.0% |
| 2016-17 | 82.4% | 86.7% |
| 2015-16 | 79.0% | 88.0% |
| 2014-15 | 77.0% | 84.0% |
% 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
79.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
73.8%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 74% 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 Cumberland Elementary
Cumberland Elementary's state test result (79.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cumberland Elementary this school | 586 | 9.7% | 79.4% |
| Alta Vista Elementary Los Gatos | 584 | 6.8% | 78.7% |
| Russell Ranch Elementary Folsom | 503 | 9.9% | 79.6% |
| Carmel Del Mar Elementary San Diego | 562 | 10.5% | 86.0% |
| Creekside Elementary San Diego | 585 | 14.4% | 77.7% |
| Simonds Elementary San Jose | 480 | 9.2% | 75.9% |
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 Cumberland Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Santa Clara County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 79.4% | #254 of 5,151 | #40 of 226 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 80.1% | #231 of 5,172 ▲ 53 | #40 of 226 ▲ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.8% | #282 of 5,172 ▼ 24 | #34 of 226 ▲ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.3pp | #1,303 of 5,116 | #24 of 225 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 586 | #1,524 of 5,915 | #34 of 255 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.1:1 | #565 of 5,352 | #39 of 247 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.1% | #743 of 5,354 | #50 of 247 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 9.7% | #5,480 of 5,625 | #221 of 252 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.7% | #1,021 of 3,837 | #80 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
586
-158 (-21%) vs 2020
-14% since 1990-91, when it was 678
Student : Teacher
19.1:1
was 23.3:1
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 | 586 | 30.7 | 19.1:1 | 10% (57) |
| 2023-24 | 589 | 28.5 | 20.7:1 | 10% (56) |
| 2022-23 | 608 | 29.5 | 20.6:1 | 13% (78) |
| 2020-21 | 744 | 32 | 23.3:1 | 6% (43) |
| 2017-18 | 768 | 29 | 26.5:1 | 6% (48) |
| 2015-16 | 745 | 31 | 24.0:1 | 6% (43) |
| 2010-11 | 628 | N/A | N/A | 14% (90) |
| 2000-01 | 540 | 27 | 20.0:1 | 13% (68) |
| 1990-91 | 678 | 27 | 25.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cumberland Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (768 to 586); teachers up 6% (29 to 30.7).
About Cumberland Elementary
Students in Sunnyvale, California, attend Cumberland Elementary, a medium-sized elementary school. The school had 586 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. An average school in this group (elementary schools in California) has about 465 students.
Sunnyvale runs Cumberland Elementary along with 9 other schools, enrolling 5,753 students in total.
Cumberland Elementary has no majority group; Asian students are the largest, at 41%. Other students are 33% White, 15% Hispanic, and 9% multiracial. The county population is about 41% Asian, within a few points of the school. Pick two students at random and there is a 69% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school employs the equivalent of 30.7 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 19.1:1. That is lower than the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 10%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Santa Clara County is 37%.
The allk12 Grade for Cumberland Elementary is A. Compared with California public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 92% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Cumberland Elementary is 5.6 points above the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 79.4% actual, 73.8% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in California.
Census Bureau estimates for Santa Clara County show that the median household income is $164,281, about 57% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Cumberland Elementary is one of 412 public schools in the county.
The next-closest public school is Sunnyvale Middle, about 0.6 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. On proficiency, Cumberland Elementary is ahead of the 60.1% nearby average, ranking 2nd of 7.
Cumberland Elementary has an NCES locale of City: Mid-size.
Federal data show a 21% enrollment decrease, from 744 in 2020-21 to 586 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 23.3:1 to 19.1:1.
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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 Sunnyvale
- Sunnyvale MiddleMiddle · 1,053 students
- Ellis ElementaryElementary · 768 students
- Columbia MiddleMiddle · 697 students
- Cherry Chase ElementaryElementary · 622 students
- Bishop ElementaryElementary · 465 students
- Vargas ElementaryElementary · 435 students
Other schools in Sunnyvale
- Fremont HighHigh · 2,060 students
- Cupertino MiddleMiddle · 1,067 students
- Sunnyvale MiddleMiddle · 1,053 students
- Louis E. Stocklmeir ElementaryElementary · 840 students
- Ellis ElementaryElementary · 768 students
- Marian A. Peterson MiddleMiddle · 759 students
Other Cumberland Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 6 states are named Cumberland Elementary. Cumberland Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 8.
- Cumberland ElementaryWhitefish Bay, WI · 624 students
- Cumberland ElementaryCumberland, VA · 530 students
- Cumberland ElementaryNashville, TN · 452 students
- Cumberland Elementary SchoolCumberland, KY · 428 students
- Cumberland Elementary SchoolToledo, IL · 387 students
Nearby schools
- Sunnyvale Middle0.6 mi · 1,053
- Cherry Chase Elementary0.7 mi · 622
- Vargas Elementary1.0 mi · 435
- Community Day1.0 mi · 6
- Ellis Elementary1.1 mi · 768
- Fremont High1.1 mi · 2,060
Frequently asked questions
About Cumberland ElementaryHow large is Cumberland Elementary?
Cumberland Elementary enrolls approximately 586 students in grades KG-05.
Is Cumberland Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Cumberland Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Cumberland Elementary?
Approximately 19.1:1 students per teacher at Cumberland Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Cumberland Elementary?
At Cumberland Elementary, the student body is approximately 33% White, 15% Hispanic, 1% Black, 41% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Cumberland Elementary public or private?
Cumberland Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Sunnyvale.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.