Ledesma (Rita) Elementary

Set in San Jose, California, Ledesma (Rita) Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack primary school, part of Oak Grove Elementary. It educates 426 students across grades K through 6.

Oak Grove Elementary comprises 18 schools with combined enrollment of 8,515 students; Ledesma (Rita) Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Ledesma (Rita) Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 38% Asian, 11% White, 8% multiracial, 3% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the resource side, On paper, Ledesma (Rita) Elementary has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 35% of students at Ledesma (Rita) Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ledesma (Rita) Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.7%; this one delivers 58.1%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Santa Clara County) reports that median household earnings sit near $164,281, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Ledesma (Rita) Elementary is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

Los Paseos Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ledesma (Rita) Elementary. On composite proficiency, Ledesma (Rita) Elementary comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 49.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Ledesma (Rita) Elementary's enrollment has decreased 6% since 2018, when it stood at 451 (now 426). Over the same period, the White share declined from 20% to 11%. Class-load math has fell: from 28.2:1 in 2018 to 25.1:1 in 2025.

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