Rod Kelley Elementary

Rod Kelley Elementary is one of the reasonably sized elementary schools in Gilroy, California, one of the schools within Gilroy Unified, with 697 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Rod Kelley Elementary sits 50% larger than that benchmark.

Within Gilroy Unified, which oversees 14 schools and 10,176 students, Rod Kelley Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Rod Kelley Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (80%). Other groups include 8% White, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Rod Kelley Elementary lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 26.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Rod Kelley Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.3%; this one delivers 42.3%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Santa Clara County put median household income runs about $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. Across Santa Clara County's 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), Rod Kelley Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Mt. Madonna High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Rod Kelley Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 37.7%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Rod Kelley Elementary's enrollment has shrank 8% since 2018, when it stood at 760 (now 697). Class-load math has fell: from 29.2:1 in 2018 to 26.3:1 in 2025.

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