Oak Grove High

Located at 285 Blossom Hill Rd., in San Jose, California, Oak Grove High is a well-populated high school that serves 1,374 students (grades 9 through 12), part of East Side Union High. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Oak Grove High sits 64% above that benchmark.

East Side Union High comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 19,736 students; Oak Grove High is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Oak Grove High logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 64% of enrollment. Other groups include 24% Asian, 5% White, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Oak Grove High has 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.1:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Santa Clara County's rate of about 37%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Oak Grove High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 46.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.4%.

In the area at large, census data for Santa Clara County shows median household earnings sit near $164,281, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Santa Clara County's 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), Oak Grove High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Summit Public School: Tahoma, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Oak Grove High comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.1%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Oak Grove High has edged down 25%, going from 1,837 students in 2018 to 1,374 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 57% to 64% over that span.

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