Enrollment
310
Elementary
DISTRICT 439 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OAK GROVE ELEMENTARY·NCES 062781004221
Stipe (Samuel) Elementary
5000 Lyng Dr., San Jose, CA 95111 · (408) 227-7332 · Santa Clara County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL310 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 20% of California public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
22.1:1
14 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 24.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
188 students
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 55 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 34 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 26 | 8% |
| Grade 3 | 41 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 45 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 58 | 19% |
| Grade 6 | 51 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 8% larger than its 6th grade class (51).
Student demographics
49%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
31.1%
CA avg 49.1% . +0.1pp since 2014
Math
30.9%
CA avg 37.7% . +11.9pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores are up about 12 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 9.5% | 21.6% | 24.2% | 44.7% |
| Math | 7.8% | 23.0% | 22.5% | 46.6% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.1% | 30.9% |
| 2023-24 | 26.7% | 28.4% |
| 2022-23 | 28.3% | 32.4% |
| 2021-22 | 31.6% | 24.8% |
| 2018-19 | 34.6% | 32.4% |
| 2017-18 | 29.7% | 30.8% |
| 2016-17 | 22.2% | 21.5% |
| 2015-16 | 27.0% | 29.0% |
| 2014-15 | 31.0% | 19.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
29.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.0%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Stipe (Samuel) Elementary
Stipe (Samuel) Elementary's state test result (29.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stipe (Samuel) Elementary this school | 310 | 60.6% | 29.8% |
| Los Cerritos Elementary South San Francisco | 304 | 62.2% | 19.4% |
| August Schilling Elementary Newark | 344 | 55.5% | 15.3% |
| Robert Randall World Languages Milpitas | 285 | 59.3% | 33.7% |
| Spruce Elementary South San Francisco | 384 | 61.2% | 21.9% |
| Allen (Decima M.) Elementary San Bruno | 396 | 64.9% | 43.5% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Stipe (Samuel) Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Santa Clara County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.8% | #3,533 of 5,151 | #183 of 226 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 30.9% | #3,136 of 5,172 ▲ 113 | #170 of 226 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.1% | #3,870 of 5,172 ▲ 271 | #183 of 226 ▲ 11 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.8pp | #2,361 of 5,116 | #55 of 225 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 310 | #4,681 of 5,915 | #201 of 255 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.1:1 | #2,290 of 5,352 | #136 of 247 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.7% | #2,860 of 5,354 | #150 of 247 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 60.6% | #3,450 of 5,625 | #70 of 252 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.0% | #2,940 of 3,837 | #163 of 189 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
310
-62 (-17%) vs 2020
-42% since 1990-91, when it was 539
Student : Teacher
22.1:1
was 24.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 310 | 14 | 22.1:1 | 61% (188) |
| 2023-24 | 316 | 13 | 24.3:1 | 58% (182) |
| 2022-23 | 330 | 14 | 23.6:1 | 52% (172) |
| 2020-21 | 372 | 15 | 24.8:1 | 42% (157) |
| 2017-18 | 337 | 13 | 25.9:1 | 77% (260) |
| 2015-16 | 394 | 15 | 26.3:1 | 83% (327) |
| 2010-11 | 440 | N/A | N/A | 82% (359) |
| 2000-01 | 535 | 31 | 17.3:1 | 75% (403) |
| 1990-91 | 539 | 21 | 25.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Stipe (Samuel) Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (337 to 310); teachers up 8% (13 to 14).
About Stipe (Samuel) Elementary
Stipe (Samuel) Elementary is a small elementary school in San Jose, California, administered by Oak Grove Elementary. The latest federal count shows 310 students in kindergarten through 6. Against the 465-student average for elementary schools in California, enrollment here is 33% lower.
Stipe (Samuel) Elementary falls under Oak Grove Elementary, which has 18 schools enrolling 8,515 students.
Hispanic students account for 69% of enrollment at Stipe (Samuel) Elementary. Other students are 18% Asian, 5% White, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. That is higher than the 25% Hispanic share among all Santa Clara County residents. By the diversity index, Stipe (Samuel) Elementary comes in at 49%.
Stipe (Samuel) Elementary employs 14 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 22.1:1. Elementary schools in California have a similar average ratio of 22.3:1. Stipe (Samuel) Elementary's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 61%. That rate is above the 37% average among public schools in Santa Clara County.
The allk12 Grade for Stipe (Samuel) Elementary is C-. Compared with California public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 20% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 44.0% for Stipe (Samuel) Elementary. The school posts 29.8%, 14.2 points below the prediction.
Stipe (Samuel) Elementary is located in Santa Clara County, where median household income is about $164,281, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Stipe (Samuel) Elementary is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County, which together enroll about 230,059 students.
Davis (Caroline) Intermediate is the public school closest to Stipe (Samuel) Elementary, about 0.5 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Stipe (Samuel) Elementary is 4th of 7 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The school's locale code, City: Large, means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 372 to 310. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 24.8:1 to 22.1:1.
Parents and students can post about school events, clubs, and volunteer needs at Stipe (Samuel) Elementary. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Santa Clara County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,902,047
Census ACS
Median income
$164,281
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
412
230,059 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Oak Grove Elementary
- Herman (Leonard) IntermediateMiddle · 723 students
- Bernal IntermediateMiddle · 675 students
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- Parkview ElementaryElementary · 549 students
- Santa Teresa ElementaryElementary · 542 students
- Davis (Caroline) IntermediateMiddle · 537 students
Other schools in San Jose
- Evergreen Valley HighHigh · 2,703 students
- Independence HighHigh · 2,289 students
- Silver Creek HighHigh · 2,139 students
- Santa Teresa HighHigh · 2,134 students
- Piedmont Hills HighHigh · 1,918 students
- Leigh HighHigh · 1,884 students
Nearby schools
- Davis (Caroline) Intermediate0.5 mi · 537
- Edenvale Elementary0.6 mi · 357
- Christopher Elementary0.9 mi · 446
- G. W. Hellyer Elementary1.2 mi · 387
- Voices College-Bound Language Academy1.3 mi · 316
- Hayes Elementary1.4 mi · 470
Frequently asked questions
About Stipe (Samuel) ElementaryHow large is Stipe (Samuel) Elementary?
Stipe (Samuel) Elementary enrolls approximately 310 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Stipe (Samuel) Elementary serve?
Stipe (Samuel) Elementary serves grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Stipe (Samuel) Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Stipe (Samuel) Elementary is approximately 22.1:1 (14 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Stipe (Samuel) Elementary?
At Stipe (Samuel) Elementary, the student body is approximately 5% White, 69% Hispanic, 3% Black, 18% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Stipe (Samuel) Elementary public or private?
Stipe (Samuel) Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Oak Grove Elementary.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.