Stipe (Samuel) Elementary

Stipe (Samuel) Elementary is a tight-knit elementary campus in San Jose, California, operated by Oak Grove Elementary. The school hosts 310 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Stipe (Samuel) Elementary sits 33% below that benchmark.

Across the 18 schools in Oak Grove Elementary (8,515 students total), Stipe (Samuel) Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Stipe (Samuel) Elementary lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 69%. The remainder comes out to 18% Asian, 5% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Santa Clara County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Stipe (Samuel) Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 43.4%; actual is 28.1%, a gap of -15.3 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Santa Clara County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Stipe (Samuel) Elementary is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

Davis (Caroline) Intermediate 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. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Stipe (Samuel) Elementary at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 29.7%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Stipe (Samuel) Elementary has decreased 8%, going from 337 students in 2018 to 310 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment declined from 76% to 69% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 25.9:1 in 2018 to 22.1:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Stipe (Samuel) Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.