Steindorf STEAM K-8 Magnet

Steindorf STEAM K-8 Magnet operates as a medium-sized primary school in San Jose, California, one of the schools within Cambrian. Current enrollment sits at 491 students spanning grades K through 8.

Cambrian comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,111 students; Steindorf STEAM K-8 Magnet is among them.

Looking at the student body, Steindorf STEAM K-8 Magnet shows that the most-represented group is Asian (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 33% White, 13% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 2% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Santa Clara County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 5% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Santa Clara County (around 37%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Steindorf STEAM K-8 Magnet performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.7%, the actual is 80.6%, a residual of +3.9 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Santa Clara County shows median household earnings sit near $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. In all, Santa Clara County runs 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), of which Steindorf STEAM K-8 Magnet is one.

Fammatre Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Steindorf STEAM K-8 Magnet comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 61.6%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 3%: 479 students in 2018 compared to 491 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 48% to 33% over that span.

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