Downtown College Preparatory Middle

Located at 1402 Monterey Hwy., in San Jose, California, Downtown College Preparatory Middle is a minimally staffed intermediate school that serves 231 students (grades 5 through 8), run under Downtown College Preparatory Middle District. Enrollment runs roughly 65% below the state mean of about 659.

Downtown College Preparatory Middle is a school of Downtown College Preparatory Middle District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

In terms of who attends, Downtown College Preparatory Middle reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%); the rest is composed of 4% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Downtown College Preparatory Middle higher than the state norm the norm. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Santa Clara County (around 37%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

In the surrounding community, Santa Clara County reports that median household income runs about $164,281, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Downtown College Preparatory Middle is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

Downtown College Preparatory is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Downtown College Preparatory Middle.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. Downtown College Preparatory Middle operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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