Davis (Caroline) Intermediate

Davis (Caroline) Intermediate is an intermediate school of small scale in San Jose, California, one of the schools within Oak Grove Elementary, serveing 537 students in grades 7 through 8.

Oak Grove Elementary runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 8,515 students. Davis (Caroline) Intermediate is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Davis (Caroline) Intermediate logs that 70% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 18% Asian, 5% White, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Davis (Caroline) Intermediate has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 62% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Santa Clara County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Davis (Caroline) Intermediate falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 42.7%; this one comes in at 22.9%, -19.8 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, Santa Clara County reports that median household income runs about $164,281, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Santa Clara County's 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), Davis (Caroline) Intermediate is one campus in the mix.

Stipe (Samuel) Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Davis (Caroline) Intermediate. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Davis (Caroline) Intermediate ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 30.6%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 10%: 600 students in 2018 compared to 537 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 60% to 70%.

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