Fremont Elementary

Fremont Elementary operates as a high-enrollment primary school in Salinas, California, part of Alisal Union. Current enrollment sits at 711 students spanning grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 53% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

Across the 13 schools in Alisal Union (7,303 students total), Fremont Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Fremont Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (100%). That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Fremont Elementary has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 97% of students at Fremont Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Monterey County (around 76%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Fremont Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.8%, the actual is 15.6%, a residual of -6.2 points.

In the broader community, Monterey County reports that median household income runs about $97,230, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Fremont Elementary is one of 153 public schools in Monterey County (combined enrollment of about 73,845 students).

El Sausal Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fremont Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Fremont Elementary at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 23.8%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fremont Elementary has shrank 20%, going from 887 students in 2018 to 711 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 80% to 100% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 25.3:1 in 2018 to 24.1:1 in 2025.

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