Elementary · California
Gardner Elementary
Free meals for allGardner Elementary, a public elementary school in San Jose, California: grades k–5, 385 students, 18.6 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of San Jose Unified.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 385
- Teachers (FTE)
- 20.7
- Students per teacher
- 18.6
- Grades
- K–5
- Elementary
Fewer students per teacher than 87% of elementary schools in California
Median 22.4 · 5,918 schools compared
More students per teacher than 82% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Smaller than 65% of elementary schools in California
Median 455 · 5,933 schools compared
Smaller than 56% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades K–5
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large city
- Run by
- San Jose Unified
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with San Jose Unified.
Location
- Address
- 502 Illinois Ave., San Jose, CA 95125
- Phone
- (408)535-6225
- City or town
- San Jose
- County
- Santa Clara County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Rocketship Mateo Sheedy ElementaryCharterFree meals for all | K–5 | 454 | 27.5 |
Washington ElementaryFree meals for all | K–5 | 329 | 19.4 |
River GlenFree meals for all | K–8 | 463 | 29.4 |
Rocketship Alma AcademyCharterFree meals for all | K–5 | 532 | 32.2 |
Lowell ElementaryFree meals for all | K–5 | 261 | 21.4 |
Willow Glen ElementaryFree meals for all | K–5 | 660 | 20.8 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
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