Tom Matsumoto Elementary

Tom Matsumoto Elementary operates as a heavily attended primary school in San Jose, California, overseen by Evergreen Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 727 students spanning grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Tom Matsumoto Elementary sits 56% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 16 schools in Evergreen Elementary (8,464 students total), Tom Matsumoto Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Tom Matsumoto Elementary reports that 74% of the student body identifies as Asian. The remainder comes out to 14% Hispanic, 4% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 13% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Santa Clara County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Tom Matsumoto Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.6%, the actual is 76.3%, a residual of +4.8 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Santa Clara County indicate median household earnings sit near $164,281, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Tom Matsumoto Elementary is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

Chaboya Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Tom Matsumoto Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Tom Matsumoto Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 73.3%.

Tom Matsumoto Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tom Matsumoto Elementary has remained close to its prior level, going from 721 students in 2018 to 727 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 86% to 74% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 26.2:1 in 2018 to 24.2:1 in 2025.

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