Alameda High

Set in Alameda, California, Alameda High is an expansive 9-12 campus, part of Alameda Unified. It enrolls 1,868 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 123% above the state mean of about 838.

Within Alameda Unified, which oversees 15 schools and 9,260 students, Alameda High is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Alameda High logs that the most-represented group is Asian (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 28% White, 17% multiracial, 16% Hispanic, 4% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 79 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 30% of students at Alameda High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Alameda County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Alameda High tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 65.8%.

In the broader community, census data for Alameda County shows median household income runs about $129,367, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Alameda County runs 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), of which Alameda High is one.

Love Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Alameda High at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 66.0%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 5%: 1,776 students in 2018 compared to 1,868 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 46% to 34% across the same window.

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