Santa Teresa High

Santa Teresa High is a 9-12 campus of high-enrollment scale in San Jose, California, overseen by East Side Union High, teacheing 2,134 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 155% bigger than the state mean of about 838.

Santa Teresa High is one of 16 schools operated by East Side Union High, a district that hosts 19,736 students overall.

Demographically, Santa Teresa High records that 40% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 30% Asian, 19% White, 7% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 95 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.5:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 28% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Santa Clara County's rate of about 37%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Santa Teresa High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.9%, the actual is 55.5%, a residual of -7.3 points.

In the broader community, census data for Santa Clara County shows median household income runs about $164,281, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), Santa Teresa High is one campus in the mix.

Phoenix High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Santa Teresa High comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 54.2%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 4%: 2,220 students in 2018 compared to 2,134 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 25% to 19% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.9:1 in 2018 to 22.5:1 today.

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