Rocketship Mateo Sheedy Elementary

Rocketship Mateo Sheedy Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school for students in San Jose, California. Its enrollment is 454 students, spread over kindergarten through 5.

Rocketship Mateo Sheedy Elementary District is the district for Rocketship Mateo Sheedy Elementary.

Of every 100 students at Rocketship Mateo Sheedy Elementary, about 83 are Hispanic. Other students are 11% Black and 3% Asian. That is higher than the 25% Hispanic share among all Santa Clara County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 30%.

Teacher count: 16.5 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 27.5:1. The gap from the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California is 5.2 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 80%. The gap from the 37% average for public schools in Santa Clara County is 43 points.

The school is in Santa Clara County, where the median household earns about $164,281 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 57% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Across Santa Clara County, 412 public schools serve about 230,059 students.

Among nearby public schools, Washington Elementary is closest at about 0.3 miles. Rocketship Mateo Sheedy Elementary is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles.

Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. The school is classified as a charter school in federal data.

Federal enrollment counts fell from 511 (2020-21) to 454 (2024-25). There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (27.5:1) than in 2020-21 (30.1:1).

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