Eden Gardens Elementary

Set in Hayward, California, Eden Gardens Elementary is a moderately sized elementary school, operated by Hayward Unified. It educates 477 students across grades K through 6.

Hayward Unified comprises 28 schools with combined enrollment of 17,273 students; Eden Gardens Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Eden Gardens Elementary records that 55% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 23% Asian, 7% multiracial, 6% White, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 69% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Alameda County's rate of about 49%.

With demographic context factored in, Eden Gardens Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.2%; this one delivers 27.4%.

Around the school, Alameda County reports that median household earnings sit near $129,367, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Alameda County runs 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), of which Eden Gardens Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Anthony W. Ochoa Middle, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Eden Gardens Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 33.0%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Eden Gardens Elementary has ticked down 19%, going from 587 students in 2018 to 477 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 48% to 55% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 24.5:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 in 2025.

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