Noble Elementary

Noble Elementary is a small elementary school in San Jose, California, part of Berryessa Union Elementary. The school hosts 370 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Noble Elementary sits 20% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Berryessa Union Elementary, which oversees 13 schools and 5,907 students, Noble Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Noble Elementary lists that Asian students make up the majority at 60%; the rest reads as 22% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 7% White. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 24% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Santa Clara County (around 37%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Noble Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.5%, the actual is 67.3%, a residual of +1.8 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Santa Clara County shows 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%. Noble Elementary is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

The closest other public school is Toyon Elementary, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Noble Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 51.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Noble Elementary has contracted 24%, going from 488 students in 2018 to 370 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 27.2:1 in 2018 to 23.4:1 in 2025.

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