Garden Gate Elementary

Located at 10500 Ann Arbor Ave., in Cupertino, California, Garden Gate Elementary is a moderately sized elementary campus that hosts 471 students (grades K through 5), operated by Cupertino Union.

Cupertino Union runs 23 schools in total, collectively educating 13,526 students. Garden Gate Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Garden Gate Elementary shows that nearly all students (83%) are Asian. Other groups include 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 41% Asian, putting the school's mix considerably more Asian than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Garden Gate Elementary logs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.7:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 21% of students at Garden Gate Elementary qualify 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 meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Garden Gate Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.1%, the actual is 74.8%, a residual of +7.7 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Santa Clara County shows the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Garden Gate Elementary is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

The closest other public school is Homestead High, roughly 0.4 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Garden Gate Elementary at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 79.2%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Garden Gate Elementary has fell 23%, going from 609 students in 2018 to 471 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share edged down from 90% to 83%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 26.3:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 in 2025.

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