Alexander Hamilton Elementary

Set in Stockton, California, Alexander Hamilton Elementary is a medium-sized elementary campus, run under Stockton Unified. It enrolls 599 students across grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Alexander Hamilton Elementary sits 29% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 54 schools in Stockton Unified (33,590 students total), Alexander Hamilton Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Alexander Hamilton Elementary lists that 78% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 8% Black, 7% Asian, 4% multiracial, 2% White. By comparison, San Joaquin County as a whole is about 43% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, San Joaquin County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Alexander Hamilton Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.5%, the actual is 13.6%, a residual of -13.9 points.

In the area at large, census data for San Joaquin County shows median household income runs about $92,179, roughly 23% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across San Joaquin County's 251 public schools (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students), Alexander Hamilton Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Monroe Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Alexander Hamilton Elementary comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 18.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 30%: 854 students in 2018 compared to 599 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 32.1:1 in 2018 to 21.7:1 in 2025.

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