John M. Horner Middle

John M. Horner Middle operates as a roomy junior high in Fremont, California, one of the schools within Fremont Unified. Current enrollment sits at 1,574 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so John M. Horner Middle sits 139% bigger than that benchmark.

Fremont Unified comprises 43 schools with combined enrollment of 33,073 students; John M. Horner Middle is among them.

On demographics, John M. Horner Middle shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Asian (83%). Beyond that, the school lists 9% Hispanic, 4% White, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Alameda County's rate of about 49%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, John M. Horner Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.7%; this one delivers 78.5%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Alameda County indicate 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 M. Horner Middle is one campus in the mix.

O. N. Hirsch Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around John M. Horner Middle. On composite proficiency, John M. Horner Middle comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 65.1%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. John M. Horner Middle's enrollment has increased 30% since 2018, when it stood at 1,212 (now 1,574). The Asian share of enrollment expanded from 77% to 83% over that span.

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