Northwood Elementary

Located at 2760 East Trimble Rd., in San Jose, California, Northwood Elementary is a moderately sized K-5 school that educates 452 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Berryessa Union Elementary.

Northwood Elementary is one of 13 schools operated by Berryessa Union Elementary, a district that educates 5,907 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Northwood Elementary records that Asian students make up the majority at 77%; the rest looks like 12% Hispanic, 5% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 41% Asian, putting the school's mix noticeably more Asian than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Northwood Elementary has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Northwood Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 13% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Santa Clara County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Northwood Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.6%, the actual is 71.9%, a residual of +0.3 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Santa Clara County put median household income runs about $164,281, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Northwood Elementary is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

The closest other public school is Morrill Middle, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Northwood Elementary comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 62.6%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Northwood Elementary has edged down 20%, going from 567 students in 2018 to 452 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment edged down from 83% to 77% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 25.8:1 in 2018 to 23.8:1 today.

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