Price Charter Middle

Price Charter Middle is a middle school of average-sized scale in San Jose, California, one of the schools within Cambrian, serveing 959 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 46% larger than the state mean of about 659.

Cambrian comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,111 students; Price Charter Middle is among them.

In terms of who attends, Price Charter Middle logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 31%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 31% White, 22% Asian, 13% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Price Charter Middle has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.4:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Santa Clara County's rate of about 37%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Price Charter Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.6%, the actual is 61.2%, a residual of -8.4 points.

Around the school, 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%. In all, Santa Clara County runs 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), of which Price Charter Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Fammatre Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Price Charter Middle ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 60.8%.

The campus sits in an urban setting. As a public charter, Price Charter Middle runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Price Charter Middle has fell 7%, going from 1,031 students in 2018 to 959 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 45% to 31% across the same window.

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