Duveneck Elementary

As a low-enrollment K-5 school in Palo Alto, California, Duveneck Elementary teaches 376 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Palo Alto Unified.

Duveneck Elementary is one of 20 schools operated by Palo Alto Unified, a district that caters to 10,187 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Duveneck Elementary reports that 44% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 20% White, 20% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 2% Pacific Islander. Compared to Santa Clara County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Duveneck Elementary has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 14% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Duveneck Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.4%, the actual is 83.1%, a residual of +11.6 points.

In the surrounding community, 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. Duveneck Elementary is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

Walter Hays Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Duveneck Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 63.5%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Duveneck Elementary has edged down 13%, going from 430 students in 2018 to 376 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 38% to 20%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 17.7:1 in 2018 to 21.3:1 today.

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