Noddin Elementary

Noddin Elementary is a moderately sized K-5 school in San Jose, California, one of the schools within Union Elementary. The school caters to 500 students in grades K through 5.

Noddin Elementary is one of 8 schools operated by Union Elementary, a district that teaches 5,376 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Noddin Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Asian (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 25% White, 19% Hispanic, 7% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Noddin Elementary has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.7:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 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.

After controlling for student poverty, Noddin Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.5%, the actual is 67.8%, a residual of -2.7 points.

Across the wider county, Santa Clara County reports that the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Noddin Elementary is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

Nearest neighbor: Leigh High, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Noddin Elementary. On composite proficiency, Noddin Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 71.9%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Noddin Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 22% since 2018, when it stood at 644 (now 500). The White share of enrollment contracted from 43% to 25% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 26.8:1 in 2018 to 22.7:1 today.

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