Gardner Elementary

Gardner Elementary is one of the close-knit elementary schools in San Jose, California, one of the schools within San Jose Unified, with 385 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

San Jose Unified comprises 41 schools with combined enrollment of 24,322 students; Gardner Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Gardner Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%). The remainder looks like 5% White, 3% multiracial, 3% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Santa Clara County (around 37%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Gardner Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.7%, the actual is 24.8%, a residual of -12.9 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Santa Clara County) shows that median household income runs about $164,281, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Santa Clara County runs 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), of which Gardner Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Rocketship Mateo Sheedy Elementary, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Gardner Elementary. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Gardner Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 30.7%.

Gardner Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Gardner Elementary has climbed 7%, going from 360 students in 2018 to 385 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 18.6:1 today.

On this page, the feed for Gardner Elementary typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.