1
How has Harder Elementary changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
671
Elementary
DISTRICT 509 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HAYWARD UNIFIED·NCES 061674002115
Harder Elementary
585 Willow Ave., Hayward, CA 94541 · (510) 723-3840 · Alameda County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL671 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
22.7:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.8:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
539 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 106 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 98 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 98 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 99 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 101 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 85 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (106) is 25% larger than its 6th grade class (85).
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · 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
17.8%
CA avg 49.1% . -12.3pp since 2014
Math
11.4%
CA avg 37.7% . -9.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 12 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 10 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 3.7% | 14.1% | 21.1% | 61.1% |
| Math | 2.8% | 8.6% | 19.1% | 69.5% |
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 | 17.8% | 11.4% |
| 2023-24 | 16.9% | 10.7% |
| 2022-23 | 21.8% | 11.1% |
| 2021-22 | 23.1% | 14.0% |
| 2018-19 | 22.5% | 12.7% |
| 2017-18 | 20.4% | 11.6% |
| 2016-17 | 24.8% | 12.6% |
| 2015-16 | 30.0% | 16.0% |
| 2014-15 | 30.0% | 21.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
13.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.5%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 14% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 32% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Harder Elementary
Harder Elementary's state test result (13.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harder Elementary this school | 671 | 80.3% | 13.9% |
| Bowling Green Elementary Sacramento | 685 | 82.0% | 25.9% |
| Harrison Elementary Stockton | 640 | 81.6% | 23.2% |
| Denker Avenue Elementary Gardena | 670 | 79.9% | 44.4% |
| Cleveland Elementary Stockton | 587 | 84.0% | 28.6% |
| McKinley Elementary Fresno | 671 | 83.9% | 27.0% |
Matched among California elementary 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 Harder Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Alameda County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 13.9% | #4,992 of 5,151 | #173 of 189 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 11.4% | #4,984 of 5,172 ▲ 10 | #176 of 192 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 17.8% | #4,958 of 5,172 ▼ 21 | #167 of 192 ▲ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.0pp | #733 of 5,116 | #53 of 187 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 671 | #887 of 5,915 | #25 of 216 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.7:1 | #2,733 of 5,352 | #77 of 201 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.2% | #3,060 of 5,354 | #157 of 201 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.3% | #2,161 of 5,625 | #60 of 211 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +10.4% | #500 of 1,139 | #17 of 48 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
671
+216 (+47%) vs 2020
+20% since 1990-91, when it was 557
Student : Teacher
22.7:1
was 22.8:1
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 | 671 | 29.6 | 22.7:1 | 80% (539) |
| 2023-24 | 666 | 27.9 | 23.9:1 | 82% (549) |
| 2022-23 | 675 | 28.4 | 23.8:1 | 78% (524) |
| 2020-21 | 455 | 20 | 22.8:1 | 71% (322) |
| 2017-18 | 608 | 24 | 25.3:1 | 67% (410) |
| 2015-16 | 619 | 23 | 26.9:1 | 87% (538) |
| 2010-11 | 599 | N/A | N/A | 71% (425) |
| 2000-01 | 759 | 38 | 20.0:1 | 55% (415) |
| 1990-91 | 557 | 24 | 23.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Harder Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 10% (608 to 671); teachers up 23% (24 to 29.6).
About Harder Elementary
Harder Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Hayward, California. Students in kindergarten through 6 make up the school's enrollment of 671 students. Elementary schools in California have about 465 students on average; enrollment here is 44% higher.
Hayward Unified runs Harder Elementary along with 27 other schools, enrolling 17,273 students in total.
More than half of the students at Harder Elementary are Hispanic (72%). Beyond that, enrollment is 12% Asian, 7% Black, 4% Pacific Islander, and 3% multiracial. In Alameda County overall, about 23% of residents are Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Harder Elementary scores 46%.
Based on 29.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, Harder Elementary has a ratio of 22.7:1. That is in line with the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 80%. Compared with the 49% average for public schools in Alameda County, the school's rate is higher.
Harder Elementary trails its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 18.6 points (13.9% versus 32.5%), a bottom-10% result in California on BeatsExpectations.
In Alameda County, the median household earns about $129,367 a year, about 52% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Across Alameda County, 394 public schools serve about 210,511 students.
Hayward Collegiate Charter sits about 0.5 miles from Harder Elementary. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 16.7%, higher than Harder Elementary's 13.9%.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Harder Elementary enrolled 455 in 2020-21 and 671 in 2024-25. Changes in grade configuration can produce shifts of this size.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on athletics, class schedules, and weather closures here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Alameda County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,649,473
Census ACS
Median income
$129,367
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
52%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
394
210,511 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hayward Unified
- Mt. Eden HighHigh · 1,865 students
- Hayward HighHigh · 1,580 students
- Tennyson HighHigh · 1,511 students
- Cherryland ElementaryElementary · 855 students
- Burbank ElementaryElementary · 800 students
- Martin Luther King Jr. MiddleMiddle · 669 students
Other schools in Hayward
- Mt. Eden HighHigh · 1,865 students
- Hayward HighHigh · 1,580 students
- Tennyson HighHigh · 1,511 students
- Cherryland ElementaryElementary · 855 students
- Burbank ElementaryElementary · 800 students
- Impact Academy of Arts & TechnologyHigh · 716 students
Nearby schools
- Hayward Collegiate Charter0.5 mi · 231
- Faith Ringgold School of Arts and Science0.6 mi · 111
- Tennyson High0.7 mi · 1,511
- Glassbrook Elementary0.7 mi · 455
- Hayward Twin Oaks Montessori0.8 mi · 643
- Tyrrell Elementary0.8 mi · 597
Frequently asked questions
About Harder ElementaryHow many students attend Harder Elementary?
Harder Elementary enrolls approximately 671 students in grades KG-06.
Is Harder Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Harder Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Harder Elementary have?
Harder Elementary employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 22.7:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Harder Elementary?
At Harder Elementary, the student body is approximately 1% White, 72% Hispanic, 7% Black, 12% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Harder Elementary in?
Harder Elementary is part of Hayward Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.