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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

South Valley Middle, Gilroy, CA

CEP schoolSouth Valley Middle is a public middle school in Gilroy, part of Gilroy Unified. It enrolled 784 students in 2024-25, with 23.8 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
784
Teachers (FTE)
33.0
Students per teacher
23.8
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 22.9. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school23.8
District22.9
California21.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
7881 Murray Ave., Gilroy, CA 95020
County
Santa Clara County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Midsize
NCES school ID
061518001918
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
386
Reduced-price lunch
50
Free or reduced-price lunch
43655.6% of enrollment.
Direct certification
300Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

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 middle schools in Gilroy Unified

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.