Forest Park Elementary

Forest Park Elementary operates as a large K-5 school in Fremont, California, overseen by Fremont Unified. Current enrollment sits at 725 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Forest Park Elementary sits 56% larger than that benchmark.

Forest Park Elementary is one of 43 schools operated by Fremont Unified, a district that teaches 33,073 students overall.

Demographically, Forest Park Elementary records that 81% of students identify as Asian, making the school strongly Asian-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 8% Hispanic, 5% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 33% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 26.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 19% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Alameda County (around 49%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Forest Park Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.3%, the actual is 76.9%, a residual of +8.5 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Alameda County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $129,367 per year, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Forest Park Elementary is one of 394 public schools in Alameda County (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students).

Nearest neighbor: Ardenwood Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Forest Park Elementary comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 69.1%.

Forest Park Elementary operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 28%: 1,013 students in 2018 compared to 725 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 90% to 81% across the same window.

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