Farnham Charter

Farnham Charter is a small K-5 school in San Jose, California, overseen by Cambrian. The school instructs 372 students in grades K through 5.

Cambrian runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,111 students. Farnham Charter is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Farnham Charter shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 33%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 25% Asian, 24% White, 15% multiracial, 3% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the resource side, On paper, Farnham Charter has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 24% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Santa Clara County (around 37%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Farnham Charter performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.1%, the actual is 55.4%, a residual of -9.7 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Santa Clara County indicate the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Farnham Charter is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

Nearest neighbor: Carlton Elementary, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Farnham Charter comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 70.5%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. As a public charter, Farnham Charter runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Farnham Charter has decreased 29%, going from 524 students in 2018 to 372 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 40% to 24% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 24.9:1 in 2018 to 23.3:1 in 2025.

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