Skip to content
BCER

Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5

Ponderosa Elementary, Sunnyvale, CA

Ponderosa Elementary is a public elementary school in Sunnyvale, part of Santa Clara Unified. It enrolled 524 students in 2024-25, with 22.8 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
524
Teachers (FTE)
23.0
Students per teacher
22.8
Grades
K to 5

This school's ratio is 3.8 higher than the district figure of 19.0. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school22.8
District19.0
California21.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
804 Ponderosa Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Phone
(408)423-4000
District
Santa Clara Unified
County
Santa Clara County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Midsize
NCES school ID
063543006049
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
141
Reduced-price lunch
8
Free or reduced-price lunch
14928.4% of enrollment.
Direct certification
125Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
No

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

Other elementary schools in Santa Clara Unified

Elementary schools elsewhere in Sunnyvale

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.