Connecting Waters Charter - East Bay

In Union City, California, part of Alameda County, Connecting Waters Charter - East Bay is a combined-grade school. The grade span is kindergarten through 12, and enrollment is 540 students.

Connecting Waters Charter - East Bay falls under Connecting Waters Charter - East Bay District.

Connecting Waters Charter - East Bay's enrollment has no majority group, and Asian students are the largest at 45%. Smaller groups are 21% White, 20% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, and 4% Black. County-wide, 33% of Alameda County residents are Asian. By the diversity index, Connecting Waters Charter - East Bay comes in at 70%.

Teacher staffing is 30.1 full-time equivalents, or about 17.9 students per teacher. Among combined schools in California, the typical ratio is 18.6:1. About 30% of students, or 164, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 49% for public schools in Alameda County.

County data help place the school in context: in Alameda County, median household income is about $129,367, about 52% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Connecting Waters Charter - East Bay is among the 394 public schools in Alameda County.

The next-closest public school is Decoto School for Independent Study, about 0.3 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles.

NCES assigns Connecting Waters Charter - East Bay the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. NCES lists Connecting Waters Charter - East Bay as a charter school.

Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 534 to 540. The number of students per teacher rose from 13.7 to 17.9 over 4 years.

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