Glassbrook Elementary

Glassbrook Elementary, a medium-sized elementary-level community in Hayward, California, operated by Hayward Unified, hosts 455 students, covering grades K through 6.

Glassbrook Elementary is one of 28 schools operated by Hayward Unified, a district that hosts 17,273 students overall.

Demographically, Glassbrook Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 75% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 8% Asian, 5% White, 5% Black, 4% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Glassbrook Elementary records 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 83% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Alameda County's rate of about 49%.

After controlling for student poverty, Glassbrook Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 30.3%; Glassbrook Elementary posts 8.8%, -21.5 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Alameda County) records that the typical household earns roughly $129,367 per year, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Alameda County runs 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), of which Glassbrook Elementary is one.

Tyrrell Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Glassbrook Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Glassbrook Elementary at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 20.3%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 15%: 537 students in 2018 compared to 455 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 88% to 75% across the same window.

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