G. W. Hellyer Elementary

Located at 725 Hellyer Ave., in San Jose, California, G. W. Hellyer Elementary is a low-enrollment K-5 school that caters to 387 students (grades K through 6), run under Franklin-McKinley Elementary.

G. W. Hellyer Elementary is one of 16 schools operated by Franklin-McKinley Elementary, a district that caters to 5,663 students overall.

In terms of who attends, G. W. Hellyer Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment; the rest reads as 22% Asian. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 81% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Santa Clara County (around 37%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, G. W. Hellyer Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.3%; this one delivers 42.9%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Santa Clara County put median household income runs about $164,281, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Santa Clara County runs 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), of which G. W. Hellyer Elementary is one.

Voices College-Bound Language Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), G. W. Hellyer Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 26.6%.

G. W. Hellyer Elementary operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 5%: 407 students in 2018 compared to 387 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 61% to 74% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 25.4:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 in 2025.

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