Merritt Trace Elementary

Merritt Trace Elementary operates as a big elementary campus in San Jose, California, part of San Jose Unified. Current enrollment sits at 829 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Merritt Trace Elementary sits 78% larger than that benchmark.

San Jose Unified runs 41 schools in total, collectively educating 24,322 students. Merritt Trace Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Merritt Trace Elementary shows that 72% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest reads as 15% White, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

In terms of school funding signals, Merritt Trace Elementary records 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.2:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Santa Clara County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Merritt Trace Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 47.2%; actual is 32.2%, a gap of -15.0 points.

In the area at large, census data for Santa Clara County shows median household earnings sit near $164,281, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Merritt Trace Elementary is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

The closest other public school is Abraham Lincoln High, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Merritt Trace Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 40.3%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 9%: 913 students in 2018 compared to 829 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 27.6:1 in 2018 to 22.2:1 today.

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