Manuel De Vargas Elementary

As an intimate elementary campus in San Jose, California, Manuel De Vargas Elementary works with 379 students from grades K through 5, part of Cupertino Union.

Across the 23 schools in Cupertino Union (13,526 students total), Manuel De Vargas Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Manuel De Vargas Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Asian (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder breaks down as 27% Hispanic, 10% White, 9% multiracial, 4% Black. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Manuel De Vargas Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 45% of students at Manuel De Vargas 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 above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Manuel De Vargas Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 52.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 66.2%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Santa Clara County put the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Santa Clara County's 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), Manuel De Vargas Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Easterbrook Discovery, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Manuel De Vargas Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Manuel De Vargas Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 76.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 33%: 569 students in 2018 compared to 379 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment ticked down from 69% to 49% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 21.4:1 in 2018 to 20.1:1 in 2025.

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