Mt. Pleasant Elementary

Set in San Jose, California, Mt. Pleasant Elementary is a minimally staffed elementary campus, run under Mount Pleasant Elementary. It instructs 172 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 63% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Mount Pleasant Elementary runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,512 students. Mt. Pleasant Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Mt. Pleasant Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (83%). The remainder is composed of 11% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Mt. Pleasant Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 80% 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mt. Pleasant Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.0%, the actual is 18.7%, a residual of -13.3 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Santa Clara County put median household income runs about $164,281, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Santa Clara County's 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), Mt. Pleasant Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: B. Roberto Cruz Leadership Academy, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Mt. Pleasant Elementary's enrollment has edged down 52% since 2018, when it stood at 360 (now 172). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 25.7:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 today.

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