Jose Antonio Vargas Elementary

As a compact elementary campus in Mountain View, California, Jose Antonio Vargas Elementary teaches 368 students from grades K through 5, part of Mountain View Whisman. That puts it 21% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Mountain View Whisman runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 4,624 students. Jose Antonio Vargas Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Jose Antonio Vargas Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (30%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 30% Asian, 23% White, 15% multiracial, 2% Black.

On the resource side, On paper, Jose Antonio Vargas Elementary has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Santa Clara County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Jose Antonio Vargas Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.6%, the actual is 62.1%, a residual of -3.5 points.

In the broader community, census data for Santa Clara County shows the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Jose Antonio Vargas Elementary is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

Edith Landels Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Jose Antonio Vargas Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 58.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

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