Hayes Elementary

Hayes Elementary is one of the mid-sized elementary campuss in San Jose, California, run under Oak Grove Elementary, with 470 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Across the 18 schools in Oak Grove Elementary (8,515 students total), Hayes Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hayes Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 66% of enrollment. Other groups include 19% Asian, 6% multiracial, 6% White, 3% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the income-and-resources front, Hayes Elementary records 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 26.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 56% of students at Hayes 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hayes Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.9%, the actual is 36.8%, a residual of -9.1 points.

In the broader community, census data for Santa Clara County shows the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Santa Clara County's 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), Hayes Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Del Roble Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hayes Elementary. On composite proficiency, Hayes Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 33.0%.

Hayes Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 17%: 401 students in 2018 compared to 470 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 44% to 66% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 22.3:1 in 2018 to 26.1:1 today.

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