Enrollment
373
Elementary
DISTRICT 485 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EVERGREEN ELEMENTARY·NCES 061314001496
Katherine R. Smith Elementary
2025 Clarice Dr., San Jose, CA 95122 · (408) 270-6751 · Santa Clara County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL373 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 12% of California public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
20.7:1
18 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.4:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
74%
275 students
DISTRICT 36% · 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 | 80 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 41 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 53 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 50 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 60% larger than its 6th grade class (50).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · 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
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CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
26.4%
CA avg 49.1% . +8.4pp since 2014
Math
20.6%
CA avg 37.7% . +12.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 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 8 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 13 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 5.6% | 20.8% | 23.4% | 50.3% |
| Math | 4.5% | 16.1% | 27.1% | 52.3% |
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 | 26.4% | 20.6% |
| 2023-24 | 21.1% | 18.4% |
| 2022-23 | 28.5% | 22.6% |
| 2021-22 | 23.0% | 16.7% |
| 2018-19 | 20.1% | 16.2% |
| 2017-18 | 21.8% | 18.5% |
| 2016-17 | 14.9% | 12.0% |
| 2015-16 | 19.0% | 12.0% |
| 2014-15 | 18.0% | 8.0% |
% 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
21.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.3%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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 Katherine R. Smith Elementary
Katherine R. Smith Elementary's state test result (21.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Katherine R. Smith Elementary this school | 373 | 73.7% | 21.9% |
| Ira Harbison National City | 393 | 76.6% | 37.3% |
| Moscone (George R.) Elementary San Francisco | 334 | 77.5% | 31.4% |
| Ruus Elementary Hayward | 361 | 78.1% | 23.6% |
| Agnes Ware Stanley Elementary Garden Grove | 354 | 74.9% | 51.3% |
| Walker Elementary San Diego | 398 | 76.1% | 40.4% |
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 Katherine R. Smith Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Santa Clara County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.9% | #4,401 of 5,151 | #202 of 226 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.6% | #4,245 of 5,172 ▲ 103 | #203 of 226 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.4% | #4,340 of 5,172 ▲ 304 | #195 of 226 ▲ 12 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.6pp | #2,087 of 5,116 | #48 of 225 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 373 | #4,014 of 5,915 | #161 of 255 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.7:1 | #1,332 of 5,352 | #89 of 247 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.6% | #2,380 of 5,354 | #132 of 247 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.7% | #2,712 of 5,625 | #43 of 252 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -35.1% | #290 of 3,837 | #25 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
373
-113 (-23%) vs 2020
-46% since 1990-91, when it was 694
Student : Teacher
20.7:1
was 21.1:1
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 | 373 | 18 | 20.7:1 | 74% (275) |
| 2023-24 | 379 | 18 | 21.1:1 | 50% (191) |
| 2022-23 | 398 | 19 | 20.9:1 | 75% (299) |
| 2020-21 | 486 | 23 | 21.1:1 | 57% (276) |
| 2017-18 | 575 | 23 | 25.0:1 | 80% (461) |
| 2015-16 | 615 | 25 | 24.6:1 | 79% (484) |
| 2010-11 | 692 | N/A | N/A | 77% (533) |
| 2000-01 | 772 | 39 | 19.8:1 | 56% (431) |
| 1990-91 | 694 | 28 | 24.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Katherine R. Smith Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 35% (575 to 373); teachers down 22% (23 to 18).
About Katherine R. Smith Elementary
Katherine R. Smith Elementary is a small elementary school located in San Jose, California. In all, 373 students attend the school in kindergarten through 6.
Katherine R. Smith Elementary is part of a district of 16 schools: Evergreen Elementary, with 8,464 students.
The share of Hispanic students at Katherine R. Smith Elementary is 61%, a majority. It is also 27% Asian, 5% multiracial, and 4% Black. For comparison, the population of Santa Clara County is roughly 25% Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 55%.
The school had 18 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 20.7:1. The gap from the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California is 1.6 students per teacher. The school reported 74% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. Compared with the 37% average for public schools in Santa Clara County, the school's rate is higher.
Katherine R. Smith Elementary holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 12% of California public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Katherine R. Smith Elementary falls in the middle 80% of California schools: 21.9% actual against 36.3% predicted.
In the surrounding county, Santa Clara County, the median household earns about $164,281 a year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Santa Clara County has 412 public schools with about 230,059 students, including Katherine R. Smith Elementary.
About 0.5 miles separate Katherine R. Smith Elementary from the closest public school, William C. Overfelt High. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Katherine R. Smith Elementary ranks 4th of 4 nearby schools, at 21.9% versus a 25.7% average.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Large, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 486 students in 2020-21, enrollment decreased to 373 by 2024-25.
Katherine R. Smith Elementary has a community page on allk12 for topics such as special education services, counseling, and support programs. You can also rate the school on this page.
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
Related schools
Other schools in Evergreen Elementary
- Quimby Oak MiddleMiddle · 857 students
- Chaboya MiddleMiddle · 815 students
- Tom Matsumoto ElementaryElementary · 727 students
- James Franklin Smith ElementaryElementary · 595 students
- Norwood Creek ElementaryElementary · 530 students
- Evergreen ElementaryElementary · 528 students
Other schools in San Jose
- Evergreen Valley HighHigh · 2,703 students
- Independence HighHigh · 2,289 students
- Silver Creek HighHigh · 2,139 students
- Santa Teresa HighHigh · 2,134 students
- Piedmont Hills HighHigh · 1,918 students
- Leigh HighHigh · 1,884 students
Nearby schools
- William C. Overfelt High0.5 mi · 1,363
- Alpha Cindy Avitia High0.5 mi · 405
- Apollo High0.5 mi · 141
- Donald J. Meyer Elementary0.6 mi · 246
- Alpha: Blanca Alvarado0.7 mi · 500
- Alpha: Jose Hernandez0.7 mi · 440
Frequently asked questions
About Katherine R. Smith ElementaryHow many students attend Katherine R. Smith Elementary?
Katherine R. Smith Elementary enrolls approximately 373 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Katherine R. Smith Elementary serve?
Katherine R. Smith Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Katherine R. Smith Elementary?
Approximately 20.7:1 students per teacher at Katherine R. Smith Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Katherine R. Smith Elementary?
Student demographics at Katherine R. Smith Elementary are roughly 1% White, 61% Hispanic, 4% Black, 27% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Katherine R. Smith Elementary public or private?
Katherine R. Smith Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Evergreen Elementary.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.