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Enrollment
1,630
High
DISTRICT 1,570 · STATE 838
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FREMONT UNION HIGH·NCES 061443001699
Monta Vista High
21840 McClellan Rd., Cupertino, CA 95014 · (408) 366-7600 · Santa Clara County
GRADES 09–12HIGH13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL1,630 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 91% of California public high schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public high schools
Student : Teacher
24.0:1
68 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.3:1 · STATE 18.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
6%
97 students
DISTRICT 12% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 401 | 25% |
| Grade 10 | 367 | 23% |
| Grade 11 | 408 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 454 | 28% |
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
83.3%
CA avg 49.1% . -12.7pp since 2014
Math
85.7%
CA avg 37.7% . -7.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 86 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 13 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 7 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 59.8% | 23.5% | 9.8% | 6.9% |
| Math | 67.9% | 17.8% | 9.8% | 4.5% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.3% | 85.7% |
| 2023-24 | 87.8% | 89.6% |
| 2022-23 | 91.8% | 85.7% |
| 2021-22 | 88.3% | 88.0% |
| 2020-21 | 90.4% | 90.0% |
| 2018-19 | 86.0% | 89.1% |
| 2017-18 | 89.0% | 90.0% |
| 2016-17 | 94.3% | 90.1% |
| 2015-16 | 95.0% | 94.0% |
| 2014-15 | 96.0% | 93.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
86.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
76.0%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 76% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Monta Vista High
Monta Vista High's state test result (86.6% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monta Vista High this school | 1,630 | 6.0% | 86.6% |
| Lynbrook High San Jose | 1,702 | 6.5% | 92.7% |
| Cupertino High Cupertino | 1,800 | 10.2% | 83.3% |
| Dougherty Valley High San Ramon | 3,039 | 8.1% | 82.8% |
| Emerald High Dublin | 900 | 12.2% | N/A |
| Mission San Jose High Fremont | 1,794 | 18.0% | 89.8% |
Matched among California high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Monta Vista High ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Santa Clara County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 86.6% | #10 of 1,052 | #3 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.7% | #9 of 1,056 ▼ 3 | #3 of 43 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.3% | #61 of 1,056 ▼ 29 | #7 of 43 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.7pp | #179 of 1,044 | #17 of 42 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,630 | #494 of 2,093 | #20 of 76 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.0:1 | #1,106 of 1,352 | #51 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 36.7% | #901 of 1,351 | #41 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 6.0% | #1,566 of 1,575 | #66 of 67 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -31.2% | #62 of 802 | #3 of 39 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,630
-402 (-20%) vs 2020
+8% since 1990-91, when it was 1,508
Student : Teacher
24.0:1
was 25.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,630 | 68 | 24.0:1 | 6% (97) |
| 2023-24 | 1,636 | 69.7 | 23.5:1 | 5% (87) |
| 2022-23 | 1,751 | 74.2 | 23.6:1 | 5% (93) |
| 2020-21 | 2,032 | 81 | 25.1:1 | 4% (88) |
| 2017-18 | 2,370 | 94.5 | 25.1:1 | 5% (107) |
| 2015-16 | 2,326 | 89 | 26.1:1 | 2% (58) |
| 2010-11 | 2,496 | N/A | N/A | 2% (47) |
| 2000-01 | 2,103 | 89 | 23.6:1 | 1% (13) |
| 1990-91 | 1,508 | 64 | 23.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Monta Vista High.
Since 2017-18: students down 31% (2,370 to 1,630); teachers down 28% (94.5 to 68).
About Monta Vista High
Monta Vista High is a high school in Cupertino, California, reachable at (408) 366-7600. The school serves grades 9 through 12. Enrollment is 1,630 students. High schools in California have about 838 students on average; enrollment here is 95% higher.
Fremont Union High is responsible for 6 schools, Monta Vista High included, with 9,422 students in all.
About 79% of the student body at Monta Vista High is Asian. Other students are 9% multiracial, 7% White, and 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Santa Clara County residents are about 41% Asian. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 37, compared with 70 nationally.
Its staff includes 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 24.0 students per teacher. Across high schools in California, the average ratio is 18.2:1. Monta Vista High has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 6%. The 37% average for public schools in Santa Clara County is 31 points higher.
Among California public high schools, Monta Vista High outscored 91%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Monta Vista High is 10.6 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (86.6% versus 76.0%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in California.
For Santa Clara County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $164,281 a year, roughly 57% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Monta Vista High, Santa Clara County has 412 public schools.
Of the public schools around it, Monta Vista High is closest to Abraham Lincoln Elementary, about 0.1 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Monta Vista High is 3rd of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Monta Vista High is coded as City: Small in federal locale data.
In 2020-21, Monta Vista High enrolled 2,032 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 1,630. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 25.1:1 to 24.0:1.
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Santa Clara County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,902,047
Census ACS
Median income
$164,281
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
412
230,059 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fremont Union High
- Homestead HighHigh · 2,224 students
- Fremont HighHigh · 2,060 students
- Cupertino HighHigh · 1,800 students
- Lynbrook HighHigh · 1,702 students
- Community DayHigh · 6 students
Other schools in Cupertino
- Homestead HighHigh · 2,224 students
- Cupertino HighHigh · 1,800 students
- John F. Kennedy MiddleMiddle · 880 students
- Sam H. Lawson MiddleMiddle · 841 students
- Warren E. Hyde MiddleMiddle · 800 students
- Abraham Lincoln ElementaryElementary · 662 students
Nearby schools
- Abraham Lincoln Elementary0.1 mi · 662
- John F. Kennedy Middle0.4 mi · 880
- William Faria Elementary1.0 mi · 614
- Stevens Creek Elementary1.0 mi · 407
- Garden Gate Elementary1.3 mi · 471
- Homestead High1.6 mi · 2,224
Frequently asked questions
About Monta Vista HighWhat is the total enrollment at Monta Vista High?
Monta Vista High enrolls approximately 1,630 students in grades 09-12.
Is Monta Vista High an elementary, middle, or high school?
Monta Vista High is a high school covering grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Monta Vista High?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Monta Vista High is approximately 24.0:1 (68 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Monta Vista High?
At Monta Vista High, the student body is approximately 7% White, 5% Hispanic, 0% Black, 79% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Monta Vista High?
Monta Vista High is overseen by Fremont Union High in Santa Clara County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.