Quimby Oak Middle

Quimby Oak Middle, a mid-tier junior high in San Jose, California, overseen by Evergreen Elementary, instructs 857 students, covering grades 7 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Quimby Oak Middle sits 30% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 16 schools in Evergreen Elementary (8,464 students total), Quimby Oak Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Quimby Oak Middle logs that 66% of the student body identifies as Asian. The remainder comes out to 25% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% White. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 41% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Roughly 30% of students at Quimby Oak Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Quimby Oak Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.4%, the actual is 67.5%, a residual of +6.1 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Santa Clara County shows median household earnings sit near $164,281, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Santa Clara County's 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), Quimby Oak Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Millbrook Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Quimby Oak Middle. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Quimby Oak Middle at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 64.6%.

Quimby Oak Middle operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 13%: 983 students in 2018 compared to 857 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 25.9:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 today.

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