John Gomes Elementary

John Gomes Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Fremont, California, overseen by Fremont Unified. Current enrollment sits at 462 students spanning grades K through 5.

Fremont Unified runs 43 schools in total, collectively educating 33,073 students. John Gomes Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, John Gomes Elementary logs that 82% of students identify as Asian, making the school strongly Asian-majority. The remainder consists of 8% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 33% Asian, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Asian than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting John Gomes Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Alameda County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, John Gomes Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 69.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 81.8%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Alameda County put median household earnings sit near $129,367, 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), John Gomes Elementary is one campus in the mix.

William Hopkins Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around John Gomes Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), John Gomes Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 80.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. John Gomes Elementary's enrollment has fell 41% since 2018, when it stood at 778 (now 462). The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 22.9:1 in 2018 to 25.7:1 today.

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