California School for the Blind

Set in Fremont, California, California School for the Blind is a very small unified-grade school, one of the schools within California School for the Blind (State Special Schl). It enrolls 42 students across grades K through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 602 students each, so California School for the Blind sits 93% leaner than that benchmark.

Operationally, California School for the Blind answers to California School for the Blind (State Special Schl), which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Demographically, California School for the Blind logs that 60% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 21% Asian, 12% White, 2% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 5.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.6:1 average. An estimated 40% of students are eligible 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 below the surrounding baseline.

Across the wider county, census data for Alameda County shows the typical household earns roughly $129,367 per year, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Alameda County's 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), California School for the Blind is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is California School for the Deaf-Fremont, roughly 0.2 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around California School for the Blind.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at California School for the Blind has increased 5%, going from 40 students in 2018 to 42 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 33% to 12% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 3.1:1 in 2018 to 5.3:1 in 2025.

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