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Lynbrook High
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 94 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 92 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 93% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 76% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in California's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Lynbrook High
Lynbrook High, an expansive four-year high school in San Jose, California, overseen by Fremont Union High, hosts 1,702 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 103% above the state mean of about 838.
Fremont Union High runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 9,422 students. Lynbrook High is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Lynbrook High records that the student body is overwhelmingly Asian (82%). The remainder breaks down as 8% multiracial, 5% White, 4% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Lynbrook High has 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Roughly 7% of students at Lynbrook High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Santa Clara County (around 37%), the school's rate is south of typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lynbrook High is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 75.6%; this one delivers 93.0%, a residual of +17.3 points.
Across the wider 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. Lynbrook High is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).
Murdock-Portal Elementary 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. On composite proficiency, Lynbrook High comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 81.1%.
Geographically, the school is in an urban area.
Looking at the recent track record. Lynbrook High's enrollment has declined 8% since 2018, when it stood at 1,848 (now 1,702).
On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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