Frost (earl) Elementary, San Jose CA

Original Research by School Decision on Frost (earl) Elementary

Frost Elementary is a kindergarten through sixth-grade school of roughly three hundred students in the eastern neighborhoods of San Jose. The school sits within Oak Grove School District, a mid-sized elementary district that has invested in modernizing facilities through a voter-approved bond and operates several choice program offerings across its schools.

On state assessments, Frost's proficiency rates show a pattern that parents should understand. In English language arts, the school achieved an overall proficiency rate just above half, with third grade performing strongest and fifth grade weakest. In mathematics, overall proficiency was near half as well, again with third grade as the highest-performing grade and fifth grade again showing the softest results. Science proficiency in fifth grade was notably lower. These results position the school below the midpoint for overall proficiency when compared against county districts. A parent may want to look into this further with the school, including what supports are in place for students who are not yet proficient and what progress the school has made across recent years beyond the one year of current data available.

The student body is diverse and economically mixed. Hispanic and Asian students each represent substantial shares of enrollment, with white students, multiracial students, and smaller numbers of Black students making up the remainder. About one in three students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Data on English learners and special education enrollment were not available, so the parent community's language and accessibility profile is not clear from the sources reviewed.

Oak Grove Elementary District operates several distinctive programs, including a STEAM school at Stipe Elementary focused on project-based learning and technology partnerships, a Virtual Learning Academy, and Spanish Dual Language Immersion options. Frost itself hosts an Indigo program option, which the district lists among its choice offerings, though the details of that program were not available to review. Families in Oak Grove do have enrollment choices that shape the peer groups and learning approaches they can access.

The district passed a major facilities bond in 2022, now funding classroom modernization, technology upgrades, security enhancements, and new science and STEAM learning spaces across the elementary schools. This investment is occurring without a projected rise in property tax rates as older bonds expire. For a family considering relocation, this signals a district willing to reinvest in infrastructure over time.

The Gettysburg Drive neighborhood where Frost sits is part of the broader San Jose housing market. Home values and rents in the 95123 zip code are high relative to national benchmarks, reflecting Silicon Valley's elevated cost of living. Mortgage payments and rents both consume substantial household income. The broader San Jose economy remains dominated by technology employers, though the downtown area and nearby neighborhoods are in a sustained push toward higher-density residential development and urban amenities, which shapes the longer-term character of the city even for families in more suburban-feeling parts of it.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 364%

School 64% · District 52% · ▲ 12 pts above district

▲ 21 pts above state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Grade 450%

School 50% · District 47% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 538%

School 38% · District 39% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Grade 647%

School 47% · District 44% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 17 pts above state median · ▲ 1 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 370%

School 70% · District 43% · ▲ 27 pts above district

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

Grade 444%

School 44% · District 45% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▼ 12 pts below county median

Grade 535%

School 35% · District 46% · ▼ 11 pts below district

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

Grade 650%

School 50% · District 52% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 6 pts above state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Science

Grade 524%

School 24% · District 36% · ▼ 11 pts below district

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

Social studies

Grade 857%

School 57% · District 52% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 8 pts above state median · even with county median

This schoolOak Grove 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 3Lower-income54%Higher-income76%22 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income19%Higher-income56%38 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income17%Higher-income50%33 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income42%Higher-income55%13 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income36%Higher-income73%38 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income25%Higher-income63%38 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income22%Higher-income50%28 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income50%Higher-income46%4 pp gap