Thomas P. Ryan Elementary

Thomas P. Ryan Elementary is an elementary school of low-enrollment scale in San Jose, California, overseen by Alum Rock Union Elementary, educateing 247 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Thomas P. Ryan Elementary sits 47% below that benchmark.

Alum Rock Union Elementary comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 7,251 students; Thomas P. Ryan Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Thomas P. Ryan Elementary reports that 89% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 8% Asian. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Thomas P. Ryan Elementary records 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Thomas P. Ryan Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Santa Clara County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Thomas P. Ryan Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.6%; this one delivers 19.8%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Santa Clara County indicate median household income runs about $164,281, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Santa Clara County's 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), Thomas P. Ryan Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Rocketship Academy Brilliant Minds, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Thomas P. Ryan Elementary. On composite proficiency, Thomas P. Ryan Elementary comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 20.5%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 32%: 364 students in 2018 compared to 247 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 78% to 89% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 21.4:1 in 2018 to 19.0:1 today.

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