Cragmont Elementary

Located at 830 Regal Rd., in Berkeley, California, Cragmont Elementary is an intimate elementary-level community that hosts 290 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Berkeley Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Cragmont Elementary sits 38% leaner than that benchmark.

Cragmont Elementary is one of 17 schools operated by Berkeley Unified, a district that instructs 9,116 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Cragmont Elementary lists that the most-represented group is White (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest breaks down as 23% Hispanic, 19% multiracial, 10% Black, 10% Asian. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 30% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Cragmont Elementary has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 29% of students at Cragmont Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Alameda County (around 49%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Cragmont Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 62.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 68.9%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Alameda County indicate the typical household earns roughly $129,367 per year, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Cragmont Elementary is one of 394 public schools in Alameda County (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students).

Nearest neighbor: Thousand Oaks Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cragmont Elementary. On composite proficiency, Cragmont Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 74.4%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 27%: 399 students in 2018 compared to 290 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 17% to 10%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 21.5:1 today.

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