Lyndale Elementary

Lyndale Elementary is an elementary school of modestly sized scale in San Jose, California, overseen by Alum Rock Union Elementary, hosting 275 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Lyndale Elementary sits 41% smaller than that benchmark.

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

In terms of who attends, Lyndale Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (84%). The remainder reads as 11% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Lyndale Elementary has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Lyndale Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Santa Clara County (around 37%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lyndale Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 30.1%; this one comes in at 13.8%, -16.3 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Santa Clara County) shows that median household income runs about $164,281, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Lyndale Elementary is one.

Rocketship Academy Brilliant Minds is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lyndale Elementary.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lyndale Elementary has decreased 30%, going from 395 students in 2018 to 275 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 23.2:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 in 2025.

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