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Enrollment
359
Elementary
DISTRICT 502 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MORGAN HILL UNIFIED·NCES 062583003884
P. A. Walsh STEAM Academy
353 West Main Ave., Morgan Hill, CA 95037 · (408) 201-6500 · Santa Clara County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL359 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 6% of California public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
19.0:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.8:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
249 students
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 65%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 66 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 63 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 50 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (66) is 16% larger than its 5th grade class (57).
Student demographics
39%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
21.3%
CA avg 49.1% . -10.7pp since 2014
Math
26.4%
CA avg 37.7% . +6.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 26 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 11 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 6 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 6.7% | 14.6% | 19.5% | 59.1% |
| Math | 8.4% | 18.0% | 28.7% | 44.9% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 21.3% | 26.4% |
| 2023-24 | 16.2% | 22.5% |
| 2022-23 | 23.8% | 22.8% |
| 2021-22 | 31.7% | 20.9% |
| 2018-19 | 27.8% | 18.4% |
| 2017-18 | 24.9% | 16.3% |
| 2016-17 | 23.4% | 14.2% |
| 2015-16 | 28.0% | 19.0% |
| 2014-15 | 32.0% | 20.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
21.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.9%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 39% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like P. A. Walsh STEAM Academy
P. A. Walsh STEAM Academy's state test result (21.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| P. A. Walsh STEAM Academy this school | 359 | 69.4% | 21.7% |
| Bayside STEAM Academy Imperial Beach | 362 | 70.7% | 27.8% |
| Hueneme Elementary Port Hueneme | 329 | 72.9% | 21.4% |
| Roosevelt Elementary Redwood City | 382 | 69.1% | 20.7% |
| La Veta Elementary Orange | 408 | 68.6% | 51.3% |
| Thomas Olaeta Elementary Atwater | 374 | 73.8% | 48.6% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where P. A. Walsh STEAM Academy ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Santa Clara County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.7% | #4,423 of 5,151 | #203 of 226 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.4% | #3,620 of 5,172 ▲ 282 | #183 of 226 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 21.3% | #4,769 of 5,172 ▲ 202 | #210 of 226 ▲ 9 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.4pp | #1,100 of 5,116 | #84 of 225 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 359 | #4,191 of 5,915 | #176 of 255 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.0:1 | #545 of 5,352 | #38 of 247 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 38.7% | #3,515 of 5,354 | #184 of 247 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.4% | #2,990 of 5,625 | #55 of 252 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.6% | #1,028 of 3,837 | #81 of 189 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
359
-43 (-11%) vs 2020
-27% since 1990-91, when it was 492
Student : Teacher
19.0:1
was 23.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 359 | 18.9 | 19.0:1 | 69% (249) |
| 2023-24 | 410 | 21.6 | 19.0:1 | 72% (294) |
| 2022-23 | 423 | 18.8 | 22.6:1 | 68% (288) |
| 2020-21 | 402 | 17 | 23.6:1 | 64% (256) |
| 2017-18 | 470 | 20.3 | 23.1:1 | 69% (324) |
| 2015-16 | 615 | 27 | 22.8:1 | 74% (453) |
| 2010-11 | 720 | N/A | N/A | 71% (509) |
| 2000-01 | 500 | 25 | 20.0:1 | 51% (253) |
| 1990-91 | 492 | 21 | 23.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for P. A. Walsh STEAM Academy.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (470 to 359); teachers down 7% (20.3 to 18.9).
About P. A. Walsh STEAM Academy
P. A. Walsh STEAM Academy is a low-enrollment elementary school with its address in Morgan Hill, California. The school counted 359 students in 2024-25, covering kindergarten through 5. That puts enrollment 23% below the 465-student average for elementary schools in California.
The 13 schools in Morgan Hill Unified enroll 7,810 students altogether, P. A. Walsh STEAM Academy among them.
The student body at P. A. Walsh STEAM Academy is 77% Hispanic. Other reported shares: 11% White, 7% multiracial, and 4% Asian. Santa Clara County's residents are about 25% Hispanic, 52 points below the school's share. A diversity index of 39% means there is a 39% chance two randomly chosen students at P. A. Walsh STEAM Academy are from different groups.
Staffing at P. A. Walsh STEAM Academy comes to 18.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 19.0:1. Elementary schools in California have an average ratio of 22.3:1. On the income side, 69% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 37% average among public schools in Santa Clara County.
Among California public elementary schools, P. A. Walsh STEAM Academy outscored 6%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, P. A. Walsh STEAM Academy ranks in the bottom 10% of California schools. It scores 21.7%; the prediction is 38.9%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Santa Clara County show that median household income comes to about $164,281, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 57% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. The county's public schools total 412, with about 230,059 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Lewis H. Britton Middle, is about 0.3 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. P. A. Walsh STEAM Academy places 7th of 7 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Mid-size, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 11%, from 402 to 359. Students per teacher dropped from 23.6 in 2020-21 to 19.0 in 2024-25.
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Santa Clara County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,902,047
Census ACS
Median income
$164,281
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
412
230,059 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Morgan Hill Unified
- Ann Sobrato HighHigh · 1,511 students
- Live Oak HighHigh · 1,101 students
- Jackson Academy of Music and Math (JAMM)Elementary · 690 students
- Nordstrom ElementaryElementary · 645 students
- San Martin Gwinn Environmental Science AcademyElementary · 643 students
- Lewis H. Britton MiddleMiddle · 637 students
Other schools in Morgan Hill
- Ann Sobrato HighHigh · 1,511 students
- Live Oak HighHigh · 1,101 students
- Jackson Academy of Music and Math (JAMM)Elementary · 690 students
- Charter School of Morgan HillElementary · 654 students
- Nordstrom ElementaryElementary · 645 students
- Lewis H. Britton MiddleMiddle · 637 students
Nearby schools
- Lewis H. Britton Middle0.3 mi · 637
- El Toro Health Science Academy0.9 mi · 456
- Voices College-Bound Language Academy at Morgan Hill1.0 mi · 338
- Paradise Valley Engineering Academy1.6 mi · 442
- Barrett Elementary1.7 mi · 374
- Nordstrom Elementary2.0 mi · 645
Frequently asked questions
About P. A. Walsh STEAM AcademyHow many students attend P. A. Walsh STEAM Academy?
P. A. Walsh STEAM Academy enrolls approximately 359 students in grades KG-05.
Is P. A. Walsh STEAM Academy an elementary, middle, or high school?
P. A. Walsh STEAM Academy is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does P. A. Walsh STEAM Academy have?
P. A. Walsh STEAM Academy employs 19 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.0:1.
What is the student diversity at P. A. Walsh STEAM Academy?
Student demographics at P. A. Walsh STEAM Academy are roughly 11% White, 77% Hispanic, 1% Black, 4% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is P. A. Walsh STEAM Academy in?
P. A. Walsh STEAM Academy is part of Morgan Hill Unified.
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