Havens Elementary

As a moderately sized primary school in Piedmont, California, Havens Elementary educates 464 students from grades K through 5, run under Piedmont City Unified.

Across the 6 schools in Piedmont City Unified (2,447 students total), Havens Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Havens Elementary records that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 18% Asian, 17% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 2% Black. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

On the resource side, The school employs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Havens Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 2% of students at Havens Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Alameda County's rate of about 49%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Havens Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 78.2%, the actual is 80.7%, a residual of +2.4 points.

In the area at large, Alameda County reports that the typical household earns roughly $129,367 per year, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Alameda County's 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), Havens Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Piedmont High, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Havens Elementary. On composite proficiency, Havens Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 73.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Looking at the recent track record. Havens Elementary's enrollment has edged down 3% since 2018, when it stood at 476 (now 464). Class-load math has tightened: from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 in 2025.

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