Alvarado Elementary

Alvarado Elementary, a mid-tier K-5 school in Union City, California, run under New Haven Unified, instructs 667 students, covering grades K through 5. That puts it 43% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

New Haven Unified runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 10,056 students. Alvarado Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Alvarado Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Asian (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 24% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 6% White, 4% Black. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 33% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Alvarado Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.1%.

In the broader community, census data for Alameda County shows median household earnings sit near $129,367, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Alvarado Elementary is one of 394 public schools in Alameda County (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students).

Nearest neighbor: Itliong-Vera Cruz, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Alvarado Elementary. On composite proficiency, Alvarado Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 54.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Alvarado Elementary's enrollment has edged down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 767 (now 667). Asian enrollment moved from 59% to 51% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 24.0:1 in 2018 to 25.9:1 in 2025.

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