Loyola Elementary

Loyola Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary campus in Los Altos, California, overseen by Los Altos Elementary. The school serves 367 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 21% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Los Altos Elementary runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 3,368 students. Loyola Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Loyola Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Asian (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 38% White, 17% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Santa Clara County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, Loyola Elementary has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 19.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Loyola Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 3% of students are eligible 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 somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Loyola Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 77.9%; this one delivers 84.9%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Santa Clara County) records that median household income runs about $164,281, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Loyola Elementary is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

Nearest neighbor: Georgina P. Blach Junior High, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Loyola Elementary. On composite proficiency, Loyola Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 84.4%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 14%: 425 students in 2018 compared to 367 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 46% to 38%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 21.3:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 today.

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