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Enrollment
1,053
Middle
DISTRICT 875 · STATE 659
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUNNYVALE·NCES 063846006465
Sunnyvale Middle
1080 Mango Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94087 · (408) 522-8288 · Santa Clara County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL1,053 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 62% of California public middle schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
19.5:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 18.2:1 · STATE 20.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
177 students
DISTRICT 25% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 336 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 364 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 353 | 34% |
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
65.6%
CA avg 49.1% . +3.6pp since 2014
Math
61.5%
CA avg 37.7% . +5.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 66 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 6 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 37.1% | 28.5% | 16.0% | 18.4% |
| Math | 48.6% | 12.9% | 14.6% | 23.9% |
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 | 65.6% | 61.5% |
| 2023-24 | 62.1% | 58.9% |
| 2022-23 | 64.0% | 57.6% |
| 2021-22 | 64.2% | 59.4% |
| 2018-19 | 67.2% | 62.2% |
| 2017-18 | 68.6% | 64.6% |
| 2016-17 | 71.1% | 66.5% |
| 2015-16 | 70.0% | 60.0% |
| 2014-15 | 62.0% | 56.0% |
% 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
62.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.7%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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 Sunnyvale Middle
Sunnyvale Middle's state test result (62.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunnyvale Middle this school | 1,053 | 16.8% | 62.0% |
| Dartmouth Middle San Jose | 903 | 17.4% | 64.4% |
| South Pasadena Middle South Pasadena | 1,096 | 14.5% | 80.6% |
| Day Creek Intermediate Etiwanda | 1,326 | 19.8% | 77.0% |
| Pleasanton Middle Pleasanton | 944 | 14.7% | 67.1% |
| Frank S. Greene Jr. Middle Palo Alto | 732 | 16.9% | 76.4% |
Matched among California middle 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 Sunnyvale Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Santa Clara County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.0% | #200 of 1,224 | #26 of 56 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.5% | #167 of 1,227 ▲ 2 | #21 of 56 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.6% | #242 of 1,227 ▲ 27 | #26 of 56 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +1.8pp | #656 of 1,214 | #22 of 56 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,053 | #156 of 1,377 | #5 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 19.5:1 | #391 of 1,279 | #27 of 65 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.8% | #61 of 1,278 | #4 of 65 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.8% | #1,250 of 1,329 | #53 of 66 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.6% | #580 of 930 | #40 of 53 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
1,053
-43 (-4%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 1,047
Student : Teacher
19.5:1
was 18.9:1
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 | 1,053 | 54 | 19.5:1 | 17% (177) |
| 2023-24 | 1,037 | 54.4 | 19.1:1 | 21% (221) |
| 2022-23 | 962 | 55.3 | 17.4:1 | 20% (188) |
| 2020-21 | 1,096 | 58 | 18.9:1 | 15% (167) |
| 2017-18 | 1,205 | 47 | 25.6:1 | 26% (310) |
| 2015-16 | 1,173 | 49 | 23.9:1 | 25% (292) |
| 2010-11 | 1,057 | N/A | N/A | 36% (382) |
| 2000-01 | 842 | 43 | 19.6:1 | 20% (172) |
| 1990-91 | 1,047 | 45 | 23.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sunnyvale Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (1,205 to 1,053); teachers up 15% (47 to 54).
About Sunnyvale Middle
Sunnyvale Middle is a large middle school based in Sunnyvale, California. There are 1,053 students enrolled, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts enrollment 60% above the 659-student average for middle schools in California.
Sunnyvale is the district for Sunnyvale Middle. It has 10 schools and 5,753 students.
Asian students make up 35% of enrollment at Sunnyvale Middle, the largest share of any group. The remaining shares are 27% Hispanic, 26% White, and 9% multiracial. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 73, compared with 70 nationally.
Sunnyvale Middle reports a ratio of 19.5 students per teacher, from 54 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school's 19.5:1 compares with an average of 20.7:1 for middle schools in California. Lunch program data show 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That is 20 points below the 37% average for public schools in Santa Clara County.
Among California public middle schools, Sunnyvale Middle outscored 62%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
A school with Sunnyvale Middle's lunch-eligibility share in California is predicted to score 69.7%. Sunnyvale Middle scores 62.0%, 7.7 points below that line.
In the wider Santa Clara County area, median household income comes to about $164,281, roughly 57% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Santa Clara County counts 412 public schools with about 230,059 students.
About 0.4 miles separate Sunnyvale Middle from the closest public school, Cherry Chase Elementary. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Sunnyvale Middle ranks 5th of 7 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 62.0% against a local average of 73.6%.
The school's federal locale classification is City: Mid-size.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 1,053, from 1,096 in 2020-21.
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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 Sunnyvale
- Ellis ElementaryElementary · 768 students
- Columbia MiddleMiddle · 697 students
- Cherry Chase ElementaryElementary · 622 students
- Cumberland ElementaryElementary · 586 students
- Bishop ElementaryElementary · 465 students
- Vargas ElementaryElementary · 435 students
Other schools in Sunnyvale
- Fremont HighHigh · 2,060 students
- Cupertino MiddleMiddle · 1,067 students
- Louis E. Stocklmeir ElementaryElementary · 840 students
- Ellis ElementaryElementary · 768 students
- Marian A. Peterson MiddleMiddle · 759 students
- Columbia MiddleMiddle · 697 students
Other Sunnyvale Middle schools
One other US public school is named Sunnyvale Middle. Sunnyvale Middle is the largest of the 2.
- Sunnyvale Middle SchoolSUNNYVALE, TX · 556 students
Nearby schools
- Cherry Chase Elementary0.4 mi · 622
- Cumberland Elementary0.6 mi · 586
- Alta Vista High0.6 mi · 78
- Mountain View High0.8 mi · 2,187
- Community Day1.0 mi · 6
- Oak Avenue Elementary1.0 mi · 334
Frequently asked questions
About Sunnyvale MiddleHow many students attend Sunnyvale Middle?
Sunnyvale Middle enrolls approximately 1,053 students in grades 06-08.
Is Sunnyvale Middle an elementary, middle, or high school?
Sunnyvale Middle is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Sunnyvale Middle have?
Sunnyvale Middle employs 54 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 19.5:1.
How diverse is Sunnyvale Middle?
Sunnyvale Middle reports a student body of 26% White, 27% Hispanic, 2% Black, 35% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Who oversees Sunnyvale Middle?
Sunnyvale Middle is overseen by Sunnyvale in Santa Clara County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.