Fremont Elementary

Fremont Elementary operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in Antioch, California, overseen by Antioch Unified. Current enrollment sits at 482 students spanning grades K through 5.

Fremont Elementary is one of 25 schools operated by Antioch Unified, a district that teaches 15,111 students overall.

Demographically, Fremont Elementary reports that 70% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 16% Black, 6% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Contra Costa County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Fremont Elementary reports 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Fremont Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Contra Costa County (around 45%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Fremont Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 34.9%; Fremont Elementary posts 11.8%, -23.1 points below that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Contra Costa County indicate median household earnings sit near $127,229, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Contra Costa County runs 280 public schools (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students), of which Fremont Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Antioch Middle, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fremont Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Fremont Elementary at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 13.4%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 4%: 503 students in 2018 compared to 482 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 25% to 16%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 25.1:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 in 2025.

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