Joe Michell

Set in Livermore, California, Joe Michell is a substantial elementary campus, part of Livermore Valley Joint Unified. It caters to 786 students across grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 69% above the state mean of about 465.

Livermore Valley Joint Unified runs 18 schools in total, collectively educating 12,945 students. Joe Michell is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Joe Michell reports that the most-represented group is White (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 30% Hispanic, 18% Asian, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 30% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 18% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Alameda County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Joe Michell sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 69.0%; actual is 51.1%, a gap of -17.9 points.

Around the school, Alameda County reports that median household earnings sit near $129,367, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Joe Michell is one of 394 public schools in Alameda County (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students).

Nearest neighbor: Granada High, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Joe Michell at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 59.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Joe Michell has stayed largely flat, going from 799 students in 2018 to 786 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share ticked up from 8% to 18%.

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