Linda Vista Elementary

Located at 100 Kirk Ave., in San Jose, California, Linda Vista Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school that enrolls 437 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Alum Rock Union Elementary.

Within Alum Rock Union Elementary, which oversees 22 schools and 7,251 students, Linda Vista Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Linda Vista Elementary lists that 80% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 10% Asian, 5% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Linda Vista Elementary has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 68% of students at Linda Vista Elementary qualify 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Linda Vista Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.9%; this one delivers 30.2%.

In the broader community, 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%. In all, Santa Clara County runs 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), of which Linda Vista Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Millard McCollam Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Linda Vista Elementary. On composite proficiency, Linda Vista Elementary comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 28.6%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Linda Vista Elementary's enrollment has decreased 17% since 2018, when it stood at 527 (now 437). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 21.9:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for Linda Vista Elementary typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.