Montclaire Elementary

As a mid-tier primary school in Los Altos, California, Montclaire Elementary works with 442 students from grades K through 5, run under Cupertino Union.

Cupertino Union comprises 23 schools with combined enrollment of 13,526 students; Montclaire Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Montclaire Elementary shows that the largest single group is Asian at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 26% White, 16% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 41% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 9% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Santa Clara County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Montclaire Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.3%, the actual is 85.0%, a residual of +10.8 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Santa Clara County put the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Santa Clara County's 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), Montclaire Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is West Valley Elementary, roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Montclaire Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 80.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Montclaire Elementary has edged up 3%, going from 429 students in 2018 to 442 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 40% to 26% over that span.

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