Pomeroy Elementary

Pomeroy Elementary is one of the cozy elementary schools in Santa Clara, California, part of Santa Clara Unified, with 300 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 35% below the state mean of about 465.

Santa Clara Unified comprises 30 schools with combined enrollment of 14,411 students; Pomeroy Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Pomeroy Elementary reports that 50% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 31% Asian, 10% White, 6% multiracial, 2% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Pomeroy Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 43% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Pomeroy Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 53.7%; this one comes in at 31.9%, -21.8 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Santa Clara County put median household income runs about $164,281, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Santa Clara County runs 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), of which Pomeroy Elementary is one.

Santa Clara High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pomeroy Elementary. On composite proficiency, Pomeroy Elementary comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 59.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Pomeroy Elementary's enrollment has contracted 33% since 2018, when it stood at 450 (now 300). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 24% to 10%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 22.5:1 in 2018 to 19.4:1 in 2025.

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