Joshua Chadbourne Elementary

Joshua Chadbourne Elementary operates as a reasonably sized elementary-level community in Fremont, California, operated by Fremont Unified. Current enrollment sits at 457 students spanning grades K through 5.

Within Fremont Unified, which oversees 43 schools and 33,073 students, Joshua Chadbourne Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Joshua Chadbourne Elementary records that nearly all students (84%) are Asian. The remainder looks like 5% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 3% White, 2% Black. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 33% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Joshua Chadbourne Elementary shows 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.8:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 20% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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.

With demographic context factored in, Joshua Chadbourne Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 67.5%; this one delivers 84.5%, a residual of +16.9 points.

In the surrounding community, Alameda County reports that the typical household earns roughly $129,367 per year, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Joshua Chadbourne Elementary is one of 394 public schools in Alameda County (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students).

William Hopkins Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Joshua Chadbourne Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 80.0%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Joshua Chadbourne Elementary has contracted 39%, going from 747 students in 2018 to 457 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share ticked down from 93% to 84%.

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