Vargas Elementary

Vargas Elementary, a medium-sized primary school in Sunnyvale, California, one of the schools within Sunnyvale, hosts 435 students, covering grades K through 5.

Across the 10 schools in Sunnyvale (5,753 students total), Vargas Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Vargas Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 60% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 20% Asian, 11% White, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 25% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Vargas Elementary has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 29% of students at Vargas Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Vargas Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 62.1%; Vargas Elementary posts 34.8%, -27.3 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, Santa Clara County reports that the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Santa Clara County runs 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), of which Vargas Elementary is one.

Cumberland Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Vargas Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Vargas Elementary at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 65.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 9%: 478 students in 2018 compared to 435 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 44% to 60% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 today.

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