Monroe Middle, San Jose CA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Monroe Middle

Monroe Middle is a charter school serving grades six through eight in San Jose, with an enrollment of about seven hundred students distributed roughly evenly across the three grades. The school sits within Campbell Union, the local school district.

The student body is predominantly Hispanic, with smaller shares of Asian, white, and multiracial students. A substantial majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, reflecting the economic composition of the neighborhoods Monroe serves. Detailed enrollment data on English learners and students with individualized education programs was not available.

On state assessments administered in spring 2025, Monroe's proficiency rates are low across all tested subjects and grades. In English language arts, students scored in the low twenties; in math, proficiency was in the mid-teens. Eighth grade science testing showed proficiency in the low twenties. These results place Monroe in the bottom quartile among the schools tested and reported within Santa Clara County's districts, based on an overall proficiency index. Because only one year of data is available, trend information is not possible. A parent may want to look into further with the school what supports and interventions are in place, what the school's strategic approach to academic improvement is, and whether the school tracks student progress throughout the year.

San Jose itself is a sprawling, car-oriented city mixing dense downtown development with suburban residential neighborhoods. The city is the heart of Silicon Valley, with a workforce dominated by technology employers including Cisco, Apple, Google, and Intel. Housing costs in the area are high; median home values and monthly rents both substantially exceed state and national benchmarks. Downtown San Jose has seen sustained development of residential towers in recent years, though large areas of the city remain lower-density and suburban in character. The broader region offers significant cultural and educational anchors, including San José State University, the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, and multimodal transit via VTA light rail and Diridon Station.

Monroe operates as a charter school, meaning it has a degree of independence from the traditional district structure, though it remains part of Campbell Union. The school's governance and any specialized academic focus or mission were not detailed in available sources. Parents considering Monroe should understand that academic performance on state measures is currently weak, and they may want to investigate what distinguishes the school's approach, what community it draws, and what supplemental support or enrichment the school offers beyond the classroom.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 616%

School 16% · District 44% · ▼ 28 pts below district

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 30 pts below county median

Grade 718%

School 18% · District 43% · ▼ 25 pts below district

▼ 12 pts below state median · ▼ 27 pts below county median

Grade 815%

School 15% · District 43% · ▼ 27 pts below district

▼ 13 pts below state median · ▼ 24 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 627%

School 27% · District 55% · ▼ 28 pts below district

▼ 17 pts below state median · ▼ 31 pts below county median

Grade 723%

School 23% · District 50% · ▼ 27 pts below district

▼ 22 pts below state median · ▼ 33 pts below county median

Grade 823%

School 23% · District 51% · ▼ 28 pts below district

▼ 21 pts below state median · ▼ 30 pts below county median

Science

Grade 822%

School 22% · District 47% · ▼ 25 pts below district

▼ 4 pts below state median · ▼ 14 pts below county median

Social studies

Grade 838%

School 38% · District 53% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 11 pts below state median · ▼ 19 pts below county median

This schoolCampbell Union, 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 5Lower-income77%Higher-income75%1 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income24%Higher-income35%11 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income17%Higher-income33%16 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income19%Higher-income31%12 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 5Lower-income59%Higher-income58%0 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income12%Higher-income25%13 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income9%Higher-income33%25 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income12%Higher-income21%9 pp gap