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Enrollment
465
Middle
DISTRICT 515 · STATE 659
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HAYWARD UNIFIED·NCES 061674002105
Bret Harte Middle
1047 E St., Hayward, CA 94540 · (510) 723-3100 · Alameda County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL465 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 39% of California public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public middle schools
Student : Teacher
21.9:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 21.2:1 · STATE 20.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
77%
356 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 237 | 51% |
| Grade 8 | 228 | 49% |
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
35.5%
CA avg 49.1% . -0.5pp since 2014
Math
20.2%
CA avg 37.7% . +0.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 9.2% | 26.3% | 25.7% | 38.8% |
| Math | 10.8% | 9.4% | 22.0% | 57.9% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.5% | 20.2% |
| 2023-24 | 34.7% | 22.9% |
| 2022-23 | 32.8% | 17.5% |
| 2021-22 | 31.0% | 12.8% |
| 2018-19 | 35.5% | 23.7% |
| 2017-18 | 35.1% | 25.0% |
| 2016-17 | 36.5% | 19.3% |
| 2015-16 | 35.0% | 20.0% |
| 2014-15 | 36.0% | 20.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
28.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.7%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Bret Harte Middle
Bret Harte Middle's state test result (28.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bret Harte Middle this school | 465 | 76.6% | 28.3% |
| Fulton and Alsbury Academy of Arts and Engineering Lancaster | 414 | 76.6% | 50.0% |
| Edendale Middle San Lorenzo | 483 | 85.1% | 9.8% |
| Creative Performing and Media Arts San Diego | 614 | 77.4% | 26.3% |
| Charles W. Eliot Middle Altadena | 407 | 74.4% | 19.6% |
| Lemon Grove Academy for the Sciences and Humanities Lemon Grove | 516 | 80.4% | 29.1% |
Matched among California middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Bret Harte Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Alameda County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.3% | #792 of 1,224 | #33 of 46 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.2% | #858 of 1,227 ▼ 140 | #33 of 46 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.5% | #840 of 1,227 ▼ 44 | #33 of 46 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.9pp | #250 of 1,214 | #8 of 45 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 465 | #978 of 1,377 | #37 of 51 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.9:1 | #797 of 1,279 | #28 of 49 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.0% | #317 of 1,278 | #24 of 49 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.6% | #613 of 1,329 | #17 of 50 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.1% | #233 of 930 | #6 of 29 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
465
-97 (-17%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 587
Student : Teacher
21.9:1
was 24.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 465 | 21.2 | 21.9:1 | 77% (356) |
| 2023-24 | 493 | 24.9 | 19.8:1 | 72% (355) |
| 2022-23 | 545 | 26.1 | 20.9:1 | 65% (355) |
| 2020-21 | 562 | 23 | 24.4:1 | 56% (316) |
| 2017-18 | 613 | 25.5 | 24.0:1 | 69% (424) |
| 2015-16 | 632 | 27 | 23.4:1 | 69% (435) |
| 2010-11 | 650 | N/A | N/A | 65% (420) |
| 2000-01 | 679 | 29 | 23.4:1 | 29% (195) |
| 1990-91 | 587 | 27 | 21.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bret Harte Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (613 to 465); teachers down 17% (25.5 to 21.2).
About Bret Harte Middle
This page covers Bret Harte Middle, a low-enrollment middle school in Hayward, California. It offers grades 7 through 8 and has 465 students enrolled. By comparison, middle schools in California enroll about 659 students on average.
Bret Harte Middle is one school in Hayward Unified, a system of 28 schools with 17,273 students.
Federal enrollment data show Bret Harte Middle is 56% Hispanic. The next largest groups are 17% Black, 9% Asian, 9% multiracial, and 6% White. The school's Hispanic share is 32 points above the 23% share among Alameda County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 64%.
The school's 21.2 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.9:1. Statewide, middle schools in California average 20.7:1. Income data for the school show 77% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 49% for public schools in Alameda County.
Bret Harte Middle earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 39% of California public middle schools.
On BeatsExpectations, Bret Harte Middle is 6.4 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of California schools.
In Alameda County, median household income comes to about $129,367, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 52% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Alameda County counts 394 public schools with about 210,511 students.
The closest school to Bret Harte Middle is Hayward High, located about 0.5 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Bret Harte Middle. In a group of 6 nearby schools with scores, Bret Harte Middle ranks 4th on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Bret Harte Middle is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment fell by 17% across 4 years, from 562 in 2020-21 to 465 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 24.4:1 in 2020-21 to 21.9:1 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to Bret Harte Middle can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Alameda County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,649,473
Census ACS
Median income
$129,367
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
52%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
394
210,511 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hayward Unified
- Mt. Eden HighHigh · 1,865 students
- Hayward HighHigh · 1,580 students
- Tennyson HighHigh · 1,511 students
- Cherryland ElementaryElementary · 855 students
- Burbank ElementaryElementary · 800 students
- Harder ElementaryElementary · 671 students
Other schools in Hayward
- Mt. Eden HighHigh · 1,865 students
- Hayward HighHigh · 1,580 students
- Tennyson HighHigh · 1,511 students
- Cherryland ElementaryElementary · 855 students
- Burbank ElementaryElementary · 800 students
- Impact Academy of Arts & TechnologyHigh · 716 students
Other Bret Harte Middle schools
2 other US public schools in 1 state are named Bret Harte Middle. Bret Harte Middle is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Bret Harte MiddleSan Jose, CA · 862 students
- Bret Harte MiddleOakland, CA · 337 students
Nearby schools
- Hayward High0.5 mi · 1,580
- Hayward Twin Oaks Montessori0.6 mi · 643
- Winton Middle1.0 mi · 582
- Burbank Elementary1.0 mi · 800
- Cherryland Elementary1.0 mi · 855
- Brenkwitz High1.2 mi · 76
Frequently asked questions
About Bret Harte MiddleHow many students attend Bret Harte Middle?
Bret Harte Middle enrolls approximately 465 students in grades 07-08.
Is Bret Harte Middle an elementary, middle, or high school?
Bret Harte Middle is a middle school covering grades 07-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Bret Harte Middle?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bret Harte Middle is approximately 21.9:1 (21 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Bret Harte Middle?
Student demographics at Bret Harte Middle are roughly 6% White, 56% Hispanic, 17% Black, 9% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Bret Harte Middle in?
Bret Harte Middle is part of Hayward Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.