Redwood Middle

Located at 13925 Fruitvale Ave., in Saratoga, California, Redwood Middle is an average-sized junior high that caters to 709 students (grades 6 through 8), part of Saratoga Union Elementary.

Across the 4 schools in Saratoga Union Elementary (1,651 students total), Redwood Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Redwood Middle shows that 65% of the student body identifies as Asian. Other groups include 18% White, 12% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 41% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Redwood Middle lists 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 3% of students at Redwood Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Santa Clara County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Redwood Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 78.0%, the actual is 87.3%, a residual of +9.3 points.

Around the school, Santa Clara County reports that 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%. Redwood Middle is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

Saratoga High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Redwood Middle comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 80.3%.

Redwood Middle operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Redwood Middle's enrollment has ticked down 14% since 2018, when it stood at 822 (now 709). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 25% to 18%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 20.8:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.