Lietz Elementary

Located at 5300 Carter Ave., in San Jose, California, Lietz Elementary is a reasonably sized K-5 school that instructs 501 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Union Elementary.

Lietz Elementary is one of 8 schools operated by Union Elementary, a district that caters to 5,376 students overall.

On demographics, Lietz Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 35%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 29% Asian, 26% White, 8% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 23% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Santa Clara County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lietz Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 65.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 60.8%.

In the area at large, census data for Santa Clara County shows median household earnings sit near $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%. Lietz Elementary is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

Dartmouth Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lietz Elementary at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 60.3%.

Lietz Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Lietz Elementary's enrollment has contracted 18% since 2018, when it stood at 614 (now 501). White enrollment moved from 39% to 26% across the same window.

On the community side, the feed for Lietz Elementary typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.