Ramblewood Elementary

Ramblewood Elementary is one of the small K-5 schools in San Jose, California, part of Franklin-McKinley Elementary, with 248 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 47% below the state mean of about 465.

Franklin-McKinley Elementary runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 5,663 students. Ramblewood Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Ramblewood Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Asian (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 38% Hispanic, 4% White, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 41% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Ramblewood Elementary has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 73% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Santa Clara County (around 37%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Ramblewood Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 36.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 48.6%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Santa Clara County indicate median household earnings sit near $164,281, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Ramblewood Elementary is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

Nearest neighbor: Silver Creek High, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ramblewood Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 37.9%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Ramblewood Elementary's enrollment has declined 33% since 2018, when it stood at 371 (now 248). Over the same period, the Asian share declined from 60% to 52%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 23.2:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.