2025 Santa Clara County Children’s Data Book
The 2025 Santa Clara County Children’s Data Book, developed and distributed by the County of Santa Clara, the Healthier Kids Foundation, Kids in Common, and the Santa Clara County Office of Education, provides data on a wide variety of topics, including child safety, health, success in learning, and thriving in life.
Years after the height of the pandemic, the state of youth mental health is still cause for concern. Key findings about youth mental health in Santa Clara County:
- 34 percent of high schoolers reported feelings of sadness or hopelessness (symptoms of depression) for more than two weeks in the past year.
- 15 percent of high schoolers seriously contemplated suicide in the past year.
- 30 percent had distressing thoughts 3 or more times in the past month.
- While there were not significant differences between ethnic or racial groups, there were significant differences for those in the LGBTQ+ community. LGBTQ+ students reported the highest rates of depressive symptoms, suicidal thoughts, and bullying from their peers.
At a time when stress among families with undocumented and mixed status is on the rise, data provide a window into the number of families impacted by federal immigration policies:
- 40% of Santa Clara County residents are foreign born
- 61% of children live with a parent who is an immigrant
- 55% speak a language other than English at home
Santa Clara County has the highest percentage of immigrants of any county in the state, with two of every five residents being foreign born.
You can read the report in its entirety here.