Enrollment
260
Elementary
DISTRICT 330 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALO ALTO UNIFIED·NCES 062961004591
Juana Briones Elementary
4100 Orme St., Palo Alto, CA 94306 · (650) 856-0877 · Santa Clara County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL260 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 98% of California public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.5:1
13 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.1:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
11%
28 students
DISTRICT 14% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 34 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 43 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 40 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 46 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 49 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 48 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (34) is 29% smaller than its 5th grade class (48).
Student demographics
65%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
90.2%
CA avg 49.1% . +11.2pp since 2014
Math
89.3%
CA avg 37.7% . +5.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 90 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 89 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 5 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 64.7% | 25.6% | 4.5% | 5.3% |
| Math | 66.4% | 22.9% | 7.1% | 3.6% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 90.2% | 89.3% |
| 2023-24 | 81.8% | 83.7% |
| 2022-23 | 74.4% | 81.4% |
| 2021-22 | 86.0% | 84.0% |
| 2020-21 | 83.3% | 79.3% |
| 2018-19 | 73.5% | 79.1% |
| 2017-18 | 87.8% | 86.9% |
| 2016-17 | 84.4% | 86.1% |
| 2015-16 | 89.0% | 87.0% |
| 2014-15 | 79.0% | 84.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
86.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
73.2%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 86% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Juana Briones Elementary
Juana Briones Elementary's state test result (86.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juana Briones Elementary this school | 260 | 10.8% | 86.2% |
| Carmel Creek Elementary San Diego | 317 | 14.2% | 80.0% |
| Palo Verde Elementary Palo Alto | 334 | 12.6% | 81.4% |
| Deer Canyon Elementary San Diego | 354 | 10.2% | 81.8% |
| West Hillsborough Hillsborough | 275 | 2.5% | 86.7% |
| Pacific Sky San Diego | 368 | 11.1% | 78.6% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Juana Briones Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Santa Clara County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 86.2% | #61 of 5,151 | #15 of 226 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 89.3% | #33 of 5,172 ▲ 87 | #12 of 226 ▲ 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 90.2% | #17 of 5,172 ▲ 164 | #5 of 226 ▲ 20 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.8pp | #1,730 of 5,116 | #38 of 225 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 260 | #5,064 of 5,915 | #232 of 255 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.5:1 | #723 of 5,352 | #48 of 247 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.2% | #1,233 of 5,354 | #84 of 247 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 10.8% | #5,452 of 5,625 | #218 of 252 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -17.2% | #1,755 of 3,837 | #118 of 189 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
260
-17 (-6%) vs 2020
-35% since 1990-91, when it was 398
Student : Teacher
19.5:1
was 19.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 260 | 13.3 | 19.5:1 | 11% (28) |
| 2023-24 | 260 | 13.5 | 19.3:1 | 8% (22) |
| 2022-23 | 258 | 13.4 | 19.3:1 | 9% (24) |
| 2020-21 | 277 | 14 | 19.8:1 | 10% (27) |
| 2017-18 | 314 | 18.9 | 16.6:1 | 17% (52) |
| 2015-16 | 335 | 17 | 19.7:1 | 13% (43) |
| 2010-11 | 403 | N/A | N/A | 12% (50) |
| 2000-01 | 269 | 22 | 12.2:1 | 19% (51) |
| 1990-91 | 398 | 18 | 22.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Juana Briones Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (314 to 260); teachers down 29% (18.9 to 13.3).
About Juana Briones Elementary
Juana Briones Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school that serves part of Palo Alto, California. The school runs kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 260 students. Elementary schools in California have about 465 students on average; enrollment here is 44% lower.
Juana Briones Elementary is one school in Palo Alto Unified, a system of 20 schools with 10,187 students.
About 49% of students at Juana Briones Elementary are Asian, the largest single group. Beyond that, enrollment is 30% White, 10% multiracial, and 8% Hispanic. The Asian share of the county population is lower, at 41%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 65, compared with 70 nationally.
Juana Briones Elementary reports a ratio of 19.5 students per teacher, from 13.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school's 19.5:1 compares with an average of 22.3:1 for elementary schools in California. Lunch program data show 11% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The gap from the 37% average for public schools in Santa Clara County is 26 points.
Juana Briones Elementary holds an A+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 98% of California public elementary schools.
Juana Briones Elementary's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 86.2% is 13.0 points above the 73.2% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
The school is in Santa Clara County, where median household income comes to about $164,281, roughly 57% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Santa Clara County counts 412 public schools with about 230,059 students.
A public school about 0.4 miles away, Ellen Fletcher Middle, is the closest to Juana Briones Elementary. Juana Briones Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Juana Briones Elementary comes in 2nd of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Small, or inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Over 4 years, enrollment decreased by 17 students, from 277 to 260.
People can post here about special education services, counseling, and support programs and other school topics. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Santa Clara County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,902,047
Census ACS
Median income
$164,281
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
412
230,059 students
Quick facts
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- Palo Alto HighHigh · 1,891 students
- Henry M. Gunn HighHigh · 1,643 students
- Jane Lathrop Stanford MiddleMiddle · 1,002 students
- Frank S. Greene Jr. MiddleMiddle · 732 students
- Ellen Fletcher MiddleMiddle · 572 students
- Ohlone ElementaryElementary · 464 students
Nearby schools
- Ellen Fletcher Middle0.4 mi · 572
- Henry M. Gunn High0.5 mi · 1,643
- Barron Park Elementary0.6 mi · 278
- Ardis G. Egan Junior High1.0 mi · 517
- Santa Rita Elementary1.0 mi · 326
- Bullis Charter1.1 mi · 997
Frequently asked questions
About Juana Briones ElementaryHow many students attend Juana Briones Elementary?
Juana Briones Elementary enrolls approximately 260 students in grades KG-05.
Is Juana Briones Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Juana Briones Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Juana Briones Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Juana Briones Elementary is approximately 19.5:1 (13 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Juana Briones Elementary?
At Juana Briones Elementary, the student body is approximately 30% White, 8% Hispanic, 1% Black, 49% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is Juana Briones Elementary public or private?
Juana Briones Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Palo Alto Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.