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Enrollment
458
Elementary
DISTRICT 395 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAN LORENZO UNIFIED·NCES 063471005847
Colonial Acres Elementary
17115 Meekland Ave., Hayward, CA 94541 · (510) 317-4500 · Alameda County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL458 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 4% of California public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- B-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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
22.9:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.5:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
86%
394 students
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 101 | 22% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 70 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 64 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (101) is 58% larger than its 5th grade class (64).
Student demographics
38%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · 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
11.8%
CA avg 49.1% . -4.2pp since 2014
Math
13.4%
CA avg 37.7% . +1.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 12 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 1 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 3.5% | 8.4% | 18.2% | 70.0% |
| Math | 3.0% | 10.4% | 22.9% | 63.7% |
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 | 11.8% | 13.4% |
| 2023-24 | 10.6% | 12.1% |
| 2022-23 | 13.7% | 14.4% |
| 2021-22 | 13.4% | 7.4% |
| 2018-19 | 22.2% | 21.1% |
| 2017-18 | 19.7% | 13.9% |
| 2016-17 | 15.6% | 13.9% |
| 2015-16 | 19.0% | 15.0% |
| 2014-15 | 16.0% | 12.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
11.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.1%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-17.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 12% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 29% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Colonial Acres Elementary
Colonial Acres Elementary's state test result (11.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colonial Acres Elementary this school | 458 | 86.0% | 11.9% |
| Rio Vista Elementary Bay Point | 431 | 85.4% | 19.0% |
| Victoria Elementary San Bernardino | 474 | 84.8% | 34.7% |
| Workman Avenue Elementary West Covina | 455 | 86.4% | 39.3% |
| Patricia Beatty Elementary Riverside | 494 | 84.8% | 36.7% |
| Nightingale Charter Stockton | 425 | 84.7% | 21.5% |
Matched among California elementary 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 Colonial Acres Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Alameda County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 11.9% | #5,062 of 5,151 | #176 of 189 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.4% | #4,873 of 5,172 ▲ 31 | #171 of 192 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 11.8% | #5,116 of 5,172 ▲ 10 | #180 of 192 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.3pp | #2,558 of 5,116 | #65 of 187 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 458 | #2,926 of 5,915 | #106 of 216 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.9:1 | #2,910 of 5,352 | #85 of 201 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.7% | #3,571 of 5,354 | #172 of 201 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.0% | #1,558 of 5,625 | #41 of 211 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.4% | #1,152 of 3,837 | #44 of 138 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
458
-57 (-11%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 591
Student : Teacher
22.9:1
was 23.4:1
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 | 458 | 20 | 22.9:1 | 86% (394) |
| 2023-24 | 449 | 20 | 22.4:1 | 85% (380) |
| 2022-23 | 466 | 19.4 | 24.0:1 | 84% (392) |
| 2020-21 | 515 | 22 | 23.4:1 | 67% (343) |
| 2017-18 | 590 | 26 | 22.7:1 | 82% (485) |
| 2015-16 | 639 | 27 | 23.7:1 | 85% (542) |
| 2010-11 | 618 | N/A | N/A | 73% (450) |
| 2000-01 | 632 | 33 | 19.1:1 | 46% (292) |
| 1990-91 | 591 | 24 | 24.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Colonial Acres Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (590 to 458); teachers down 23% (26 to 20).
About Colonial Acres Elementary
Colonial Acres Elementary is an elementary school with a street address in Hayward, California. Enrollment stands at 458 students, covering kindergarten through 5.
Colonial Acres Elementary is part of a district of 16 schools: San Lorenzo Unified, with 7,936 students.
The share of Hispanic students at Colonial Acres Elementary is 78%, a majority. The school is also 10% Asian, 6% Black, 3% multiracial, and 2% White. That is higher than the 23% Hispanic share among all Alameda County residents. A diversity index of 38% means there is a 38% chance two randomly chosen students at Colonial Acres Elementary are from different groups.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 22.9:1. The school has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California is close to this figure. In all, 86% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Alameda County is 49%.
Among California public elementary schools, Colonial Acres Elementary outscored 4%, which works out to an F on the allk12 Grade.
Colonial Acres Elementary is 17.2 points below expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the bottom 10% in California.
For Alameda County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $129,367 a year, roughly 52% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Colonial Acres Elementary, Alameda County has 394 public schools.
Among nearby public schools, East Bay Arts High is closest at about 0.4 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Among 7 nearby schools that report test results, Colonial Acres Elementary ranks 6th on proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 515 students in 2020-21, enrollment decreased to 458 by 2024-25.
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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 San Lorenzo Unified
- Arroyo HighHigh · 1,499 students
- San Lorenzo HighHigh · 1,029 students
- Bohannon MiddleMiddle · 606 students
- Hesperian ElementaryElementary · 500 students
- Washington Manor MiddleMiddle · 500 students
- Edendale MiddleMiddle · 483 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
Nearby schools
- East Bay Arts High0.4 mi · 154
- San Lorenzo High0.4 mi · 1,029
- Lorenzo Manor Elementary0.6 mi · 447
- Hesperian Elementary0.8 mi · 500
- Edendale Middle0.8 mi · 483
- Royal Sunset (Continuation)1.0 mi · 107
Frequently asked questions
About Colonial Acres ElementaryHow large is Colonial Acres Elementary?
Colonial Acres Elementary enrolls approximately 458 students in grades KG-05.
Is Colonial Acres Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Colonial Acres Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Colonial Acres Elementary?
Approximately 22.9:1 students per teacher at Colonial Acres Elementary.
How diverse is Colonial Acres Elementary?
Colonial Acres Elementary reports a student body of 2% White, 78% Hispanic, 6% Black, 10% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Colonial Acres Elementary public or private?
Colonial Acres Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by San Lorenzo Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.