Sierramont Middle, San Jose CA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Sierramont Middle

Sierramont Middle is a regular public middle school in San Jose serving grades six through eight. It sits in a mid-sized, diverse enrollment of students drawn from one of Silicon Valley's major residential communities, with a peer group that leans heavily toward Asian students and carries modest economic need overall.

On state assessments, the school's performance falls above the midpoint among middle schools across Santa Clara County's districts. In English language arts, students show solid proficiency across all three grades, with seventh-graders performing at a notably higher level than their sixth-grade counterparts. Math proficiency tracks slightly lower and more evenly across grades. Science, tested only in eighth grade, falls somewhat softer than ELA. The school's overall proficiency index places it in the upper half of county schools serving this grade band. A parent seeking to understand trajectory may note that only one year of current data is available; longer-term trends cannot be assessed from the data at hand.

The student body is predominantly Asian, with Hispanic students making up a meaningful secondary share. A quarter of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Data on enrollment of students with disabilities and English learners was not available. The school draws from a neighborhood in a high-cost housing market where median home values far exceed both the state and national benchmarks, and where monthly rents are also elevated. This economic landscape shapes who lives in the attendance area even as the school itself serves a range of family incomes.

San Jose as a whole is the urban core of Silicon Valley, a patchwork of distinct neighborhoods ranging from a walkable, development-dense downtown anchored by civic institutions and light rail to sprawling single-family residential districts that rely on cars. The city is shaped by its technology economy, with major employers including Cisco, Apple, Google, and Intel, though it also has a service, retail, and education sector. Downtown is in a multi-year push toward residential density, with numerous apartment towers approved or under construction. The broader metropolitan context is one of sustained economic strength and high housing costs, with tech employment providing stable, high-wage work for families in professional and technical roles.

The school's location places it in a silicon Valley neighborhood, part of the broader San Jose urban landscape. Its academic performance and student composition suggest a pathway suited to families in professional households with strong engagement in education, whether recent immigrants with roots in Asia or longer-term residents seeking stable, middle-performing schools in an expensive market. A parent visiting would want to learn more about the specific curriculum and the school's approach to math, where proficiency is somewhat below ELA, and might also ask how the school serves its population of multilingual learners, a detail the data does not illuminate.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 661%

School 61% · District 50% · ▲ 11 pts above district

▲ 30 pts above state median · ▲ 15 pts above county median

Grade 763%

School 63% · District 54% · ▲ 9 pts above district

▲ 33 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Grade 862%

School 62% · District 47% · ▲ 15 pts above district

▲ 34 pts above state median · ▲ 23 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 670%

School 70% · District 65% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 26 pts above state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

Grade 774%

School 74% · District 69% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 28 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Grade 873%

School 73% · District 65% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▲ 28 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Science

Grade 859%

School 59% · District 46% · ▲ 13 pts above district

▲ 33 pts above state median · ▲ 22 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 876%

School 76% · District 65% · ▲ 11 pts above district

▲ 27 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

This schoolBerryessa Union Elementary, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 6Lower-income47%Higher-income77%31 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income46%Higher-income83%37 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income54%Higher-income81%28 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income40%Higher-income68%28 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income37%Higher-income72%35 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income46%Higher-income69%24 pp gap