Brookvale Elementary

Brookvale Elementary is a mid-tier elementary school in Fremont, California, overseen by Fremont Unified. The school hosts 428 students in grades K through 5.

Fremont Unified comprises 43 schools with combined enrollment of 33,073 students; Brookvale Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Brookvale Elementary shows that the largest single group is Asian, at 64% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 15% Hispanic, 11% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 33% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Brookvale Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 29% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Alameda County (around 49%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Brookvale Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 62.1%; this one delivers 74.0%.

Zooming out to the county, Alameda County reports that median household earnings sit near $129,367, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Alameda County runs 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), of which Brookvale Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is American High, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Brookvale Elementary at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 64.3%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Brookvale Elementary has edged down 40%, going from 717 students in 2018 to 428 in 2025.

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