Monroe Middle

Monroe Middle is an average-sized intermediate school in San Jose, California, part of Campbell Union. The school educates 677 students in grades 6 through 8.

Campbell Union runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 6,108 students. Monroe Middle is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Monroe Middle lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 74%; the rest looks like 9% White, 8% Asian, 5% multiracial, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Santa Clara County (around 37%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Monroe Middle is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 44.3%; Monroe Middle posts 23.2%, -21.1 points below that line.

Around the school, census data for Santa Clara County shows median household income runs about $164,281, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Monroe Middle is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

Castlemont Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Monroe Middle ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. Monroe Middle is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Monroe Middle's enrollment has fell 26% since 2018, when it stood at 920 (now 677). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 64% to 74%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 18.8:1 in 2025.

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