Valle Vista Elementary

Valle Vista Elementary operates as a small primary school in San Jose, California, operated by Mount Pleasant Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 204 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Valle Vista Elementary sits 56% below that benchmark.

Mount Pleasant Elementary comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,512 students; Valle Vista Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Valle Vista Elementary records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 26% Asian, 7% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.5:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Santa Clara County's rate of about 37%.

After controlling for student poverty, Valle Vista Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.4%; this one delivers 32.2%.

In the surrounding community, Santa Clara County reports that median household earnings sit near $164,281, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Santa Clara County runs 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), of which Valle Vista Elementary is one.

Ida Jew Academies is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Valle Vista Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Valle Vista Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 24.8%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Valle Vista Elementary's enrollment has shrank 41% since 2018, when it stood at 348 (now 204). Asian enrollment moved from 37% to 26% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 21.1:1 in 2018 to 25.5:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Valle Vista Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.