Summary:
The Alpha: Jose Hernandez District contains one elementary school, Alpha: Jose Hernandez, serving grades K-8 in San Jose with a high-poverty student population of 440.
This school faces significant academic challenges, consistently ranking in the bottom 3% of all California schools for the last three years. Student proficiency rates are far below state averages, with only about 13% proficient in English and 12% in math, and a critically low 6% proficient in science. Performance declines sharply in higher grades, with 8th-grade math proficiency at just 6%.
Key factors likely impacting learning include a chronic absenteeism rate of 30.5%, which is much higher than the state average, and a student-teacher ratio of 22 to 1. Despite the district spending $18,870 per student, outcomes remain poor, indicating a need for different support strategies. For parents, this suggests the school requires substantial improvement and that investigating specific intervention programs for attendance and academic support would be important.
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