William Burnett Elementary

As a moderately sized elementary school in Milpitas, California, William Burnett Elementary enrolls 456 students from grades K through 6, one of the schools within Milpitas Unified.

Milpitas Unified comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 10,076 students; William Burnett Elementary is among them.

Demographically, William Burnett Elementary shows that Asian students make up the majority at 70%; the rest comes out to 20% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% White. By comparison, Santa Clara County as a whole is about 41% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Santa Clara County's rate of about 37%.

With demographic context factored in, William Burnett Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 52.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 60.9%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Santa Clara County put 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%. Across Santa Clara County's 412 public schools (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students), William Burnett Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Calaveras Hills, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts William Burnett Elementary at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 58.0%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 22%: 587 students in 2018 compared to 456 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 63% to 70% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 22.7:1 in 2018 to 24.0:1 today.

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