John C. Fremont Elementary

John C. Fremont Elementary operates as a roomy elementary campus in Stockton, California, one of the schools within Stockton Unified. Current enrollment sits at 813 students spanning grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so John C. Fremont Elementary sits 75% above that benchmark.

Across the 54 schools in Stockton Unified (33,590 students total), John C. Fremont Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, John C. Fremont Elementary records that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest consists of 4% White, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 43% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above San Joaquin County's rate of about 66%.

After controlling for student poverty, John C. Fremont Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 27.7%; John C. Fremont Elementary posts 11.2%, -16.5 points below that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for San Joaquin County put the typical household earns roughly $92,179 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across San Joaquin County's 251 public schools (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students), John C. Fremont Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Fillmore Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, John C. Fremont Elementary comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 27.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. John C. Fremont Elementary's enrollment has decreased 6% since 2018, when it stood at 867 (now 813). Class-load math has tightened: from 34.4:1 in 2018 to 25.7:1 in 2025.

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