Gardner Bullis Elementary

Gardner Bullis Elementary, a low-enrollment elementary-level community in Los Altos Hills, California, run under Los Altos Elementary, serves 313 students, covering grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Gardner Bullis Elementary sits 33% below that benchmark.

Within Los Altos Elementary, which oversees 9 schools and 3,368 students, Gardner Bullis Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Gardner Bullis Elementary records that the largest single group is White at 46%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 32% Asian, 16% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 30% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.6:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 2% of students at Gardner Bullis Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Santa Clara County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Gardner Bullis Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 78.4%, the actual is 86.5%, a residual of +8.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Santa Clara County indicate median household earnings sit near $164,281, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Gardner Bullis Elementary is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

Santa Rita Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Gardner Bullis Elementary at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 80.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Gardner Bullis Elementary's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 309 (now 313). White enrollment moved from 59% to 46% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.1:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 in 2025.

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