Public school / Primary
James Franklin Smith Elementary
San Jose, California
- NCES ID
- 061314008631
- District
- Evergreen Elementary
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
James Franklin Smith Elementary is a public primary school in San Jose, California, run by Evergreen Elementary. It enrols 622 students — the 24871st largest of 10,418 public schools in California.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
622
Teachers
24.0
Students per teacher
25.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
8.8%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Evergreen Elementary
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Chaboya Middle853 students
- 2Quimby Oak Middle827 students
- 3Tom Matsumoto Elementary757 students
- 4James Franklin Smith Elementary622 students
- 5Evergreen Elementary573 students
- 6Carolyn A. Clark Elementary562 students
- 7George V. Leyva Intermediate558 students
- 8Norwood Creek Elementary558 students
- Enrollment+31.2%
- Teachers+14.3%
- Students per teacher+17.2%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−87.0%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory