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Which teacher or staff member at Fremont High deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
2,060
High
DISTRICT 1,570 · STATE 838
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FREMONT UNION HIGH·NCES 061443001696
Fremont High
575 West Fremont Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94087 · (408) 522-2400 · Santa Clara County
GRADES 09–12HIGH12-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL2,060 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 53% of California public high schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public high schools
Student : Teacher
21.2:1
97 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.3:1 · STATE 18.2:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
489 students
DISTRICT 12% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 474 | 23% |
| Grade 10 | 496 | 24% |
| Grade 11 | 518 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 572 | 28% |
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
66.6%
CA avg 49.1% . +6.6pp since 2014
Math
47.0%
CA avg 37.7% . +4.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 39.7% | 26.9% | 17.2% | 16.2% |
| Math | 32.0% | 15.1% | 17.7% | 35.3% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 66.6% | 47.0% |
| 2023-24 | 61.6% | 42.3% |
| 2022-23 | 63.2% | 42.1% |
| 2021-22 | 64.5% | 41.8% |
| 2020-21 | 83.3% | 69.1% |
| 2018-19 | 69.5% | 49.9% |
| 2017-18 | 60.7% | 47.6% |
| 2016-17 | 58.4% | 46.3% |
| 2015-16 | 58.0% | 43.0% |
| 2014-15 | 60.0% | 43.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
54.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.6%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Fremont High
Fremont High's state test result (54.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fremont High this school | 2,060 | 23.7% | 54.4% |
| Santa Clara High Santa Clara | 1,663 | 23.6% | 58.1% |
| Santa Teresa High San Jose | 2,134 | 27.9% | 58.7% |
| Adrian Wilcox High Santa Clara | 1,614 | 26.0% | 54.2% |
| West High Torrance | 1,775 | 24.7% | 66.2% |
| Aragon High San Mateo | 1,658 | 16.8% | 69.0% |
Matched among California high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Fremont High ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Santa Clara County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.4% | #258 of 1,052 | #23 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #193 of 1,056 ▲ 32 | #22 of 43 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 66.6% | #323 of 1,056 ▲ 81 | #25 of 43 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +3.7pp | #413 of 1,044 | #5 of 42 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 2,060 | #256 of 2,093 | #9 of 76 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.2:1 | #717 of 1,352 | #31 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.3% | #170 of 1,351 | #13 of 57 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.7% | #1,454 of 1,575 | #53 of 67 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.0% | #707 of 802 | #35 of 39 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
2,060
-176 (-8%) vs 2020
+22% since 1990-91, when it was 1,690
Student : Teacher
21.2:1
was 22.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 2,060 | 97.2 | 21.2:1 | 24% (489) |
| 2023-24 | 2,169 | 97.3 | 22.3:1 | 24% (519) |
| 2022-23 | 2,171 | 99.7 | 21.8:1 | 23% (493) |
| 2020-21 | 2,236 | 99 | 22.6:1 | 23% (509) |
| 2017-18 | 2,123 | 93.7 | 22.6:1 | 37% (787) |
| 2015-16 | 1,965 | 86 | 22.9:1 | 35% (696) |
| 2010-11 | 1,994 | N/A | N/A | 37% (733) |
| 2000-01 | 1,928 | 85 | 22.7:1 | 8% (155) |
| 1990-91 | 1,690 | 75 | 22.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fremont High.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (2,123 to 2,060); teachers up 4% (93.7 to 97.2).
About Fremont High
Fremont High is a large high school that serves part of Sunnyvale, California. The school's enrollment of 2,060 students covers grades 9 through 12. Enrollment is 146% higher than the average for high schools in California, which is about 838.
Across its 6 schools, Fremont Union High enrolls 9,422 students. Fremont High is one of those schools.
Federal enrollment data show Hispanic students as the largest group at Fremont High, at 44%. Other groups make up 31% Asian, 16% White, and 7% multiracial. County-wide, 25% of Santa Clara County residents are Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 68% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The teaching staff at Fremont High is 97.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 21.2:1. The school has more students per teacher than the 18.2:1 average for high schools in California. About 24% of students, or 489, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 37% average among public schools in Santa Clara County.
Fremont High is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 53% of California public high schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Fremont High would score about 65.6%. It scores 54.4%, 11.3 points below that figure.
Santa Clara County has about 1,902,047 residents, and the median household income is $164,281, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides Fremont High, Santa Clara County has 411 other public schools.
Community Day is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Fremont High is 7th of 8 on proficiency.
Fremont High is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, a location NCES labels City: Mid-size.
The school enrolled 2,060 students in 2024-25, 176 fewer than the 2,236 it had in 2020-21. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 22.6:1; by 2024-25 it was 21.2:1.
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Santa Clara County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,902,047
Census ACS
Median income
$164,281
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
412
230,059 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fremont Union High
- Homestead HighHigh · 2,224 students
- Cupertino HighHigh · 1,800 students
- Lynbrook HighHigh · 1,702 students
- Monta Vista HighHigh · 1,630 students
- Community DayHigh · 6 students
Other schools in Sunnyvale
- Cupertino MiddleMiddle · 1,067 students
- Sunnyvale MiddleMiddle · 1,053 students
- Louis E. Stocklmeir ElementaryElementary · 840 students
- Ellis ElementaryElementary · 768 students
- Marian A. Peterson MiddleMiddle · 759 students
- Columbia MiddleMiddle · 697 students
Other Fremont High schools
4 other US public schools in 4 states are named Fremont High. Fremont High is the largest of the 5.
- Fremont HighOakland, CA · 1,166 students
- Fremont HighPLAIN CITY, UT · 1,448 students
- Fremont High SchoolFREMONT, MI · 595 students
- Fremont High SchoolFremont, IN · 302 students
Nearby schools
- Community Day0.2 mi · 6
- Chester W. Nimitz Elementary0.4 mi · 350
- Louis E. Stocklmeir Elementary0.7 mi · 840
- Cumberland Elementary1.1 mi · 586
- Braly Elementary1.2 mi · 381
- Sunnyvale Middle1.2 mi · 1,053
Frequently asked questions
About Fremont HighWhat is the total enrollment at Fremont High?
Fremont High enrolls approximately 2,060 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Fremont High serve?
Fremont High serves grades 09-12.
How many teachers does Fremont High have?
Fremont High employs 97 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 21.2:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Fremont High?
At Fremont High, the student body is approximately 16% White, 44% Hispanic, 1% Black, 31% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Fremont High public or private?
Fremont High is a public K-12 school, overseen by Fremont Union High.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.