Elementary · California
Ponderosa Elementary
Ponderosa Elementary, a public elementary school in Sunnyvale, California: grades k–5, 524 students, 22.1 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Santa Clara 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
- 524
- Teachers (FTE)
- 23.7
- Students per teacher
- 22.1
- Grades
- K–5
- Elementary
Fewer students per teacher than 53% of elementary schools in California
Median 22.4 · 5,918 schools compared
More students per teacher than 92% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Larger than 64% of elementary schools in California
Median 455 · 5,933 schools compared
Larger than 70% 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
- In person
- Area
- Midsize city
- Run by
- Santa Clara Unified
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Santa Clara Unified.
Location
- Address
- 804 Ponderosa Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94086
- Phone
- (408)423-4000
- City or town
- Sunnyvale
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| K–5 | 381 | 20.7 | |
Ellis ElementaryFree meals for all | K–5 | 768 | 21.5 |
| K–5 | 288 | 20.4 | |
| K–5 | 571 | 21.2 | |
| K–5 | 300 | 19.4 | |
| K–5 | 840 | 23.9 |
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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