Birch Grove Primary

Birch Grove Primary operates as a medium-sized elementary school in Newark, California. The school had 409 students in kindergarten through 2 in 2024-25.

Birch Grove Primary falls under Newark Unified, which has 10 schools enrolling 4,661 students.

By race and ethnicity, the largest group at Birch Grove Primary is Asian (45%). Enrollment also includes 31% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 6% White, and 4% Black. The school's Asian share is 12 points above the 33% share among Alameda County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at Birch Grove Primary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 68%.

Birch Grove Primary employs 16 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 25.6:1. That ratio is over the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 31% in 2024-25. For comparison, public schools in Alameda County average 49%.

Census estimates describe Alameda County this way: median household income is about $129,367, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Alameda County number 394 and enroll about 210,511.

The shortest distance from Birch Grove Primary to another public school is about 0.5 miles, to Birch Grove Intermediate. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools.

The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).

There was little change in enrollment from 2020-21 (418) to 2024-25 (409). From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio fell from 27.9:1 to 25.6:1.

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