Forest Hill Elementary

Set in San Jose, California, Forest Hill Elementary is a moderately sized primary school, run under Campbell Union. It teaches 506 students across grades K through 5.

Across the 12 schools in Campbell Union (6,108 students total), Forest Hill Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Forest Hill Elementary lists that the largest single group is Asian at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 25% White, 12% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 41% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Forest Hill Elementary has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 15% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Santa Clara County (around 37%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Forest Hill Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.6%, the actual is 81.5%, a residual of +11.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Santa Clara County) reports that median household income runs about $164,281, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Santa Clara County runs 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), of which Forest Hill Elementary is one.

Westmont High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Forest Hill Elementary. On composite proficiency, Forest Hill Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 63.7%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site. As a public charter, Forest Hill Elementary runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Forest Hill Elementary has edged down 22%, going from 646 students in 2018 to 506 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share edged up from 41% to 49%.

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