East Avenue Elementary

East Avenue Elementary is a moderately sized primary school in Hayward, California, part of Hayward Unified. The school caters to 407 students in grades K through 6.

Across the 28 schools in Hayward Unified (17,273 students total), East Avenue Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, East Avenue Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 50%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 14% Black, 14% Asian, 10% White, 9% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the income-and-resources front, East Avenue Elementary logs 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.9:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 67% of students at East Avenue Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Alameda County's rate of about 49%.

With demographic context factored in, East Avenue Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.4%.

Across the wider county, Alameda County reports that median household income runs about $129,367, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Alameda County's 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), East Avenue Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Fairview Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around East Avenue Elementary. On composite proficiency, East Avenue Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.4%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at East Avenue Elementary has ticked down 30%, going from 581 students in 2018 to 407 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment grew from 9% to 14% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.2:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 today.

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