Birch Grove Intermediate

Located at 37490 Birch St., in Newark, California, Birch Grove Intermediate is a cozy elementary school that teaches 289 students (grades 3 through 5), one of the schools within Newark Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Birch Grove Intermediate sits 38% leaner than that benchmark.

Newark Unified comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 4,661 students; Birch Grove Intermediate is among them.

On the student-mix side, Birch Grove Intermediate lists that the largest single group is Asian at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 33% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 7% White, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 33% Asian, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Asian than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Birch Grove Intermediate has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 28.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Birch Grove Intermediate higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 36% of students at Birch Grove Intermediate qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Alameda County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Birch Grove Intermediate performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.3%, the actual is 55.3%, a residual of -3.0 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Alameda County indicate the typical household earns roughly $129,367 per year, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Birch Grove Intermediate is one of 394 public schools in Alameda County (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students).

Birch Grove Primary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Birch Grove Intermediate. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Birch Grove Intermediate at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 45.1%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 37%: 458 students in 2018 compared to 289 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share rose from 35% to 42%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 34.2:1 in 2018 to 28.9:1 today.

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