El Roble Elementary

El Roble Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Gilroy, California, overseen by Gilroy Unified. Current enrollment sits at 551 students spanning grades K through 5.

Within Gilroy Unified, which oversees 14 schools and 10,176 students, El Roble Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, El Roble Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 12% White, 12% multiracial, 4% Asian. 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, The school reports having 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. 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, El Roble Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 45.2%; this one comes in at 28.6%, -16.6 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Santa Clara County shows median household earnings sit near $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%. El Roble Elementary is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

The closest other public school is Brownell Middle, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), El Roble Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 34.9%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. El Roble Elementary's enrollment has fell 14% since 2018, when it stood at 638 (now 551). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 22% to 12%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 26.7:1 in 2018 to 23.0:1 today.

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