Latimer

Set in San Jose, California, Latimer is a medium-sized elementary school, run under Moreland. It teaches 491 students across grades K through 8.

Moreland comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,788 students; Latimer is among them.

In terms of who attends, Latimer logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school lists 18% Asian, 16% White, 10% multiracial, 4% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Latimer tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Santa Clara County (around 37%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Latimer performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.2%, the actual is 50.6%, a residual of -0.6 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Santa Clara County shows median household income runs about $164,281, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Latimer is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

Nearest neighbor: Moreland Middle, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Latimer ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 62.6%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Latimer's enrollment has contracted 10% since 2018, when it stood at 547 (now 491). The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 39% to 50% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 22.5:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 in 2025.

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