Dolores Huerta Middle

Set in San Jose, California, Dolores Huerta Middle is a medium-sized intermediate school, one of the schools within Santa Clara Unified. It hosts 571 students across grades 6 through 8.

Santa Clara Unified runs 30 schools in total, collectively educating 14,411 students. Dolores Huerta Middle is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Dolores Huerta Middle logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 49%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 31% Asian, 10% White, 6% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Dolores Huerta Middle is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 57.5%; Dolores Huerta Middle posts 38.4%, -19.1 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Santa Clara County) records 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%. Dolores Huerta Middle is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

The closest other public school is Kathleen MacDonald High, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Dolores Huerta Middle ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 55.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.