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Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 6

Happy Valley Elementary, Santa Cruz, CA

Happy Valley Elementary is a public elementary school in Santa Cruz, part of Happy Valley Elementary School District. It enrolled 106 students in 2024-25, with 17.7 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
106
Teachers (FTE)
6.0
Students per teacher
17.7
Grades
K to 6

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 17.8. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school17.7
District17.8
California21.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
3125 Branciforte Dr., Santa Cruz, CA 95065
Phone
(831)429-1456
District
Happy Valley Elementary School District
County
Santa Cruz County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Rural: Fringe
NCES school ID
061656002088
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
8
Reduced-price lunch
0
Free or reduced-price lunch
87.5% of enrollment.
Direct certification
8Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Elementary schools elsewhere in Santa Cruz

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.