Leroy Anderson Elementary

As a low-enrollment elementary school in San Jose, California, Leroy Anderson Elementary serves 377 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Moreland.

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

Looking at the student body, Leroy Anderson Elementary lists that 77% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 8% White, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 85% of students at Leroy Anderson Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Santa Clara County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Leroy Anderson Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.6%, the actual is 32.7%, a residual of +4.0 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Santa Clara County put the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Leroy Anderson Elementary is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

Discovery Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Leroy Anderson Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 50.9%.

Leroy Anderson Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Leroy Anderson Elementary has contracted 8%, going from 410 students in 2018 to 377 in 2025. The White share of enrollment increased from 3% to 8% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 today.

On allk12, the feed for Leroy Anderson Elementary typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.