South SFV Today

Out of 17,351 students enrolled in Cupertino Union School District, 11.6 percent were in fifth-grade during the 2018-2019 school year, according to the California Department of Education.

The grade with the highest concentration of students was eighth-grade with 11.9 percent of all students.

According to numbers provided by the National Center for Education Services, California is expected to see a decrease of three percent in public elementary and secondary school enrollment from 2017-2029. The state expected to see the largest drop in enrollment is New Mexico with a projected 12 percent decrease, while Washington D.C. is projected to see a 14 percent increase over the same time period.

In a survey conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, seven percent of respondents said large class sizes was the biggest issue facing California's K-12 schools. In the same survey, 50 percent of the respondents said they didn’t view the financial resources their local public school was getting as adequate.

Grade	Number of students	Total %
Kindergarten	1,953	11.3
First	1,770	10.2
Second	1,903	11
Third	1,930	11.1
Fourth	1,812	10.4
Fifth	2,011	11.6
Sixth	1,958	11.3
Seventh	1,953	11.3
Eighth	2,061	11.9