Delaine Eastin Elementary

Delaine Eastin Elementary is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary campuss in Union City, California, run under New Haven Unified, with 668 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Delaine Eastin Elementary sits 44% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 13 schools in New Haven Unified (10,056 students total), Delaine Eastin Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Delaine Eastin Elementary logs that 69% of the student body identifies as Asian. Other groups include 15% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% White. The wider county runs roughly 33% Asian, putting the school's mix visibly more Asian than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Delaine Eastin Elementary shows 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 26.6:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 32% of students at Delaine Eastin Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Alameda County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Delaine Eastin Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.6%, the actual is 73.0%, a residual of +12.4 points.

In the broader community, Alameda County reports that 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%. Delaine Eastin Elementary is one of 394 public schools in Alameda County (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students).

Pioneer Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Delaine Eastin Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 55.1%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Delaine Eastin Elementary has contracted 14%, going from 775 students in 2018 to 668 in 2025. Class-load math has grew: from 25.0:1 in 2018 to 26.6:1 in 2025.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.