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What's something Ellis Elementary does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
768
Elementary
DISTRICT 500 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUNNYVALE·NCES 063846006460
Ellis Elementary
550 East Olive Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94086 · (408) 522-8260 · Santa Clara County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL768 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
21.5:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
189 students
DISTRICT 25% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 184 | 24% |
| Grade 1 | 114 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 121 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 115 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 115 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 119 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (184) is 55% larger than its 5th grade class (119).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
53.9%
CA avg 49.1% . +8.9pp since 2014
Math
52.3%
CA avg 37.7% . +3.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 3 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 31.3% | 22.6% | 20.2% | 25.9% |
| Math | 32.5% | 19.8% | 22.1% | 25.6% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.9% | 52.3% |
| 2023-24 | 58.0% | 51.0% |
| 2022-23 | 59.3% | 47.3% |
| 2021-22 | 59.2% | 43.3% |
| 2018-19 | 63.6% | 56.3% |
| 2017-18 | 52.3% | 47.9% |
| 2016-17 | 48.0% | 48.5% |
| 2015-16 | 47.0% | 52.0% |
| 2014-15 | 45.0% | 49.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
53.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.1%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Ellis Elementary
Ellis Elementary's state test result (53.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ellis Elementary this school | 768 | 24.6% | 53.9% |
| Buri Buri Elementary South San Francisco | 584 | 28.3% | 64.2% |
| Carleton P. Lightfoot Elementary Alta Loma | 878 | 32.6% | 74.1% |
| Santa Teresa Elementary San Jose | 542 | 29.0% | 64.2% |
| Ponderosa Elementary Sunnyvale | 524 | 28.4% | 62.6% |
| Beechwood Elementary Fullerton | 872 | 28.0% | 77.8% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Ellis Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Santa Clara County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.9% | #1,463 of 5,151 | #117 of 226 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.3% | #1,443 of 5,172 ▲ 13 | #116 of 226 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.9% | #1,761 of 5,172 ▼ 394 | #126 of 226 ▼ 13 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.9pp | #2,696 of 5,116 | #65 of 225 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 768 | #474 of 5,915 | #7 of 255 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.5:1 | #1,837 of 5,352 | #110 of 247 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.8% | #1,156 of 5,354 | #82 of 247 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.6% | #4,985 of 5,625 | #156 of 252 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.9% | #829 of 1,139 | #26 of 36 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
768
+29 (+4%) vs 2020
+67% since 1990-91, when it was 459
Student : Teacher
21.5:1
was 25.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 768 | 35.7 | 21.5:1 | 25% (189) |
| 2023-24 | 758 | 33 | 23.0:1 | 26% (194) |
| 2022-23 | 695 | 30 | 23.2:1 | 28% (194) |
| 2020-21 | 739 | 29 | 25.5:1 | 19% (138) |
| 2017-18 | 739 | 25.4 | 29.1:1 | 31% (230) |
| 2015-16 | 778 | 30 | 25.9:1 | 37% (284) |
| 2010-11 | 729 | N/A | N/A | 48% (348) |
| 2000-01 | 584 | 34 | 17.2:1 | 30% (174) |
| 1990-91 | 459 | 19 | 24.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ellis Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (739 to 768); teachers up 41% (25.4 to 35.7).
About Ellis Elementary
Ellis Elementary is a high-enrollment elementary school serving families in Sunnyvale, California. Enrollment is 768 students in 2024-25, and the school serves kindergarten through 5. The average for elementary schools in California is about 465 students, so this school is 65% bigger than average.
Enrollment across the 10 schools in Sunnyvale totals 5,753 students.
Enrollment at Ellis Elementary is mixed, with Hispanic students the largest group at 41%. The rest of enrollment is 40% Asian, 12% White, and 6% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Santa Clara County's population at about 25%. Ellis Elementary has a diversity index of 66%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school reports 35.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 21.5 students per teacher. For comparison, elementary schools in California average 22.3:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 25% of students. Among public schools in Santa Clara County, the average eligibility rate is 37%.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 65.1% at Ellis Elementary; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 53.9%.
County data help place the school in context: in Santa Clara County, median household income is about $164,281, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 57% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. The public schools of Santa Clara County number 412 and enroll about 230,059.
Braly Elementary is the public school closest to Ellis Elementary, about 0.5 miles away. Ellis Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: Ellis Elementary ranks 6th of 8 nearby schools, at 53.9% versus a 54.4% average.
Locale: City: Mid-size. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment up 4%, from 739 to 768. By 2024-25, the school had 21.5 students per teacher, compared with 25.5 in 2020-21.
Conversations here can range across science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Santa Clara County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,902,047
Census ACS
Median income
$164,281
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
412
230,059 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Sunnyvale
- Sunnyvale MiddleMiddle · 1,053 students
- Columbia MiddleMiddle · 697 students
- Cherry Chase ElementaryElementary · 622 students
- Cumberland ElementaryElementary · 586 students
- Bishop ElementaryElementary · 465 students
- Vargas ElementaryElementary · 435 students
Other schools in Sunnyvale
- Fremont HighHigh · 2,060 students
- Cupertino MiddleMiddle · 1,067 students
- Sunnyvale MiddleMiddle · 1,053 students
- Louis E. Stocklmeir ElementaryElementary · 840 students
- Marian A. Peterson MiddleMiddle · 759 students
- Columbia MiddleMiddle · 697 students
Other Ellis Elementary schools
8 other US public schools in 8 states are named Ellis Elementary. Ellis Elementary is the largest of the 9.
- Ellis Elementary SchoolARLINGTON, TX · 753 students
- Ellis Elementary SchoolDENVER, CO · 467 students
- Ellis Elementary SchoolRockford, IL · 457 students
- Ellis Elementary SchoolSavannah, GA · 419 students
- Ellis Elementary SchoolRoxbury, MA · 391 students
Nearby schools
- Braly Elementary0.5 mi · 381
- Ponderosa Elementary1.0 mi · 524
- Cumberland Elementary1.1 mi · 586
- Bishop Elementary1.2 mi · 465
- Fremont High1.3 mi · 2,060
- Community Day1.4 mi · 6
Frequently asked questions
About Ellis ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Ellis Elementary?
Ellis Elementary enrolls approximately 768 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Ellis Elementary serve?
Ellis Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Ellis Elementary have?
Ellis Elementary employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.5:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Ellis Elementary?
At Ellis Elementary, the student body is approximately 12% White, 41% Hispanic, 1% Black, 40% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Ellis Elementary public or private?
Ellis Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Sunnyvale.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.