Muwekma Ohlone Middle

Set in San Jose, California, Muwekma Ohlone Middle is a moderately sized middle-grades school, overseen by San Jose Unified. It educates 587 students across grades 6 through 8.

San Jose Unified runs 41 schools in total, collectively educating 24,322 students. Muwekma Ohlone Middle is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Muwekma Ohlone Middle reports that 85% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 6% Asian, 5% White, 3% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Muwekma Ohlone Middle has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Around 69% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Santa Clara County (around 37%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Muwekma Ohlone Middle is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 38.6%; Muwekma Ohlone Middle posts 21.2%, -17.4 points below that line.

Around the school, Santa Clara County reports that the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Santa Clara County runs 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), of which Muwekma Ohlone Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Grant Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Muwekma Ohlone Middle ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 18.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 24%: 770 students in 2018 compared to 587 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 80% to 85% across the same window.

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