Marshall Pomeroy Elementary

Marshall Pomeroy Elementary operates as a medium-sized elementary-level community in Milpitas, California, run under Milpitas Unified. Current enrollment sits at 597 students spanning grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Marshall Pomeroy Elementary sits 28% bigger than that benchmark.

Marshall Pomeroy Elementary is one of 15 schools operated by Milpitas Unified, a district that instructs 10,076 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Marshall Pomeroy Elementary reports that the largest single group is Asian, at 75% of enrollment; the rest consists of 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 41% Asian, putting the school's mix considerably more Asian than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Marshall Pomeroy Elementary has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.9:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Santa Clara County's rate of about 37%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Marshall Pomeroy Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.0%, the actual is 67.4%, a residual of +4.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Santa Clara County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Santa Clara County's 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), Marshall Pomeroy Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Milpitas Middle College High, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Marshall Pomeroy Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 66.0%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Marshall Pomeroy Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 719 (now 597). The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 24.9:1 today.

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