Cabrillo Elementary

Set in Fremont, California, Cabrillo Elementary is a tight-knit elementary-level community, part of Fremont Unified. It instructs 275 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Cabrillo Elementary sits 41% leaner than that benchmark.

Cabrillo Elementary is one of 43 schools operated by Fremont Unified, a district that hosts 33,073 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Cabrillo Elementary logs that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 28% Asian, 9% multiracial, 8% White. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Cabrillo Elementary has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 71% of students at Cabrillo Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Alameda County's rate of about 49%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cabrillo Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.0%; this one delivers 22.7%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Alameda County) records that median household income runs about $129,367, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Alameda County's 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), Cabrillo Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Thornton Middle, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cabrillo Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cabrillo Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 69.3%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 35%: 426 students in 2018 compared to 275 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 40% to 52%.

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