Kathryn Hughes Elementary

As a close-knit elementary school in Santa Clara, California, Kathryn Hughes Elementary serves 281 students from grades K through 5, run under Santa Clara Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 40% below typical.

Santa Clara Unified comprises 30 schools with combined enrollment of 14,411 students; Kathryn Hughes Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Kathryn Hughes Elementary reports that 43% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 35% Asian, 11% White, 5% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Kathryn Hughes Elementary shows 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 41% of students at Kathryn Hughes Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Kathryn Hughes Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 55.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.7%.

Around the school, Santa Clara County reports that median household earnings sit near $164,281, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Santa Clara County's 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), Kathryn Hughes Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Don Callejon is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kathryn Hughes Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Kathryn Hughes Elementary at 6th of 7; the average score across the group is 50.2%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 32%: 416 students in 2018 compared to 281 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 36% to 43% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 30.8:1 in 2018 to 18.7:1 in 2025.

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