Selma Olinder Elementary

Selma Olinder Elementary is a small elementary-level community in San Jose, California, run under San Jose Unified. The school enrolls 269 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 42% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Selma Olinder Elementary is one of 41 schools operated by San Jose Unified, a district that works with 24,322 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Selma Olinder Elementary logs that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder comes out to 7% Asian, 3% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

On the resource side, On paper, Selma Olinder Elementary has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 80% of students at Selma Olinder Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Santa Clara County's rate of about 37%.

With demographic context factored in, Selma Olinder Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 31.7%; Selma Olinder Elementary posts 16.4%, -15.2 points below that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Santa Clara County) shows that median household income runs about $164,281, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Santa Clara County's 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), Selma Olinder Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: McKinley Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Selma Olinder Elementary comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 18.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 32%: 398 students in 2018 compared to 269 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.

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