Coyote Hills Elementary

Coyote Hills Elementary is an elementary school of mid-tier scale in Newark, California, operated by Newark Unified, teacheing 440 students in grades K through 5.

Within Newark Unified, which oversees 10 schools and 4,661 students, Coyote Hills Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Coyote Hills Elementary records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 60%. The remainder breaks down as 21% Asian, 9% multiracial, 5% White, 4% Pacific Islander. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Coyote Hills Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.6%, the actual is 34.8%, a residual of -13.8 points.

In the broader community, census data for Alameda County shows the typical household earns roughly $129,367 per year, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Coyote Hills Elementary is one of 394 public schools in Alameda County (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students).

Newark Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Coyote Hills Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.2%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Coyote Hills Elementary has edged up 7%, going from 412 students in 2018 to 440 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment shrank from 69% to 60% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 27.5:1 in 2018 to 25.9:1 in 2025.

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