Guy Jr. Emanuele Elementary

Set in Union City, California, Guy Jr. Emanuele Elementary is a big elementary-level community, part of New Haven Unified. It educates 746 students across grades K through 5. That puts it 60% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Guy Jr. Emanuele Elementary is one of 13 schools operated by New Haven Unified, a district that hosts 10,056 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Guy Jr. Emanuele Elementary logs that 48% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 36% Hispanic, 6% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 29.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Alameda County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Guy Jr. Emanuele Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.0%, the actual is 35.5%, a residual of -6.6 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Alameda County indicate median household earnings sit near $129,367, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Alameda County's 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), Guy Jr. Emanuele Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Connecting Waters Charter - East Bay is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Guy Jr. Emanuele Elementary comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 46.0%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Guy Jr. Emanuele Elementary has edged up 27%, going from 586 students in 2018 to 746 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share increased from 31% to 48%. Class-load math has loosened: from 24.9:1 in 2018 to 29.3:1 in 2025.

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