Itliong-Vera Cruz

Located at 31604 Alvarado Blvd., in Union City, California, Itliong-Vera Cruz is a well-populated intermediate school that hosts 1,097 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by New Haven Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Itliong-Vera Cruz sits 66% bigger than that benchmark.

New Haven Unified runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 10,056 students. Itliong-Vera Cruz is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Itliong-Vera Cruz logs that Asian students make up the majority at 62%; the rest reads as 19% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% White, 3% Black. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 33% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Itliong-Vera Cruz sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.6%; this one delivers 50.4%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Alameda County indicate median household income runs about $129,367, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Alameda County's 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), Itliong-Vera Cruz is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Alvarado Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Itliong-Vera Cruz. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Itliong-Vera Cruz ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 53.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Itliong-Vera Cruz has decreased 20%, going from 1,378 students in 2018 to 1,097 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.9:1 in 2018 to 22.7:1 today.

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