Frost (Earl) Elementary

Located at 530 Gettysburg Dr., in San Jose, California, Frost (Earl) Elementary is a close-knit elementary school that instructs 313 students (grades K through 6), part of Oak Grove Elementary. That puts it 33% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Oak Grove Elementary comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 8,515 students; Frost (Earl) Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Frost (Earl) Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 26% Asian, 16% White, 11% multiracial, 4% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 26.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Frost (Earl) Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 59.7%, the actual is 46.1%, a residual of -13.6 points.

In the area at large, Santa Clara County reports that the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Santa Clara County's 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), Frost (Earl) Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Indigo, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Frost (Earl) Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 53.8%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Frost (Earl) Elementary's enrollment has decreased 53% since 2018, when it stood at 671 (now 313). White enrollment moved from 34% to 16% across the same window.

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