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What do you wish you knew before starting at Longwood Elementary?
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Enrollment
517
Elementary
DISTRICT 509 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HAYWARD UNIFIED·NCES 061674002120
Longwood Elementary
850 Longwood Ave., Hayward, CA 94541 · (510) 723-3850 · Alameda County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL517 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
22.5:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.8:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
425 students
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 87 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 77 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 73 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is 19% larger than its 6th grade class (73).
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
22.4%
CA avg 49.1% . -0.6pp since 2014
Math
13.6%
CA avg 37.7% . -7.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores are down about 7 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 6.4% | 16.0% | 22.1% | 55.5% |
| Math | 3.2% | 10.4% | 27.2% | 59.1% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 22.4% | 13.6% |
| 2023-24 | 16.8% | 12.0% |
| 2022-23 | 20.2% | 13.3% |
| 2021-22 | 25.1% | 13.8% |
| 2018-19 | 25.6% | 21.0% |
| 2017-18 | 26.9% | 19.1% |
| 2016-17 | 26.8% | 16.8% |
| 2015-16 | 22.0% | 18.0% |
| 2014-15 | 23.0% | 21.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
16.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.4%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 31% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Longwood Elementary
Longwood Elementary's state test result (16.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Longwood Elementary this school | 517 | 82.2% | 16.1% |
| Leontine Gracey Elementary Merced | 509 | 81.7% | 25.2% |
| Tyrrell Elementary Hayward | 597 | 82.1% | 19.1% |
| Cypress Elementary Covina | 558 | 79.0% | 39.8% |
| Las Palmas National City | 458 | 83.4% | 23.9% |
| Dr. Albert Schweitzer Leadership Academy Anaheim | 521 | 80.8% | 51.2% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Longwood Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Alameda County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 16.1% | #4,874 of 5,151 | #162 of 189 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.6% | #4,864 of 5,172 ▲ 53 | #170 of 192 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.4% | #4,695 of 5,172 ▲ 244 | #158 of 192 ▲ 14 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.4pp | #1,376 of 5,116 | #78 of 187 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 517 | #2,228 of 5,915 | #77 of 216 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.5:1 | #2,578 of 5,352 | #76 of 201 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.2% | #3,603 of 5,354 | #174 of 201 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.2% | #1,953 of 5,625 | #52 of 211 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.0% | #1,197 of 3,837 | #48 of 138 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
517
-35 (-6%) vs 2020
-22% since 1990-91, when it was 661
Student : Teacher
22.5:1
was 24.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 517 | 23 | 22.5:1 | 82% (425) |
| 2023-24 | 502 | 22.5 | 22.3:1 | 84% (422) |
| 2022-23 | 532 | 23 | 23.1:1 | 74% (394) |
| 2020-21 | 552 | 23 | 24.0:1 | 70% (387) |
| 2017-18 | 663 | 27 | 24.6:1 | 70% (463) |
| 2015-16 | 726 | 26 | 27.9:1 | 88% (640) |
| 2010-11 | 666 | N/A | N/A | 62% (416) |
| 2000-01 | 779 | 41 | 19.0:1 | 65% (510) |
| 1990-91 | 661 | 33 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Longwood Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (663 to 517); teachers down 15% (27 to 23).
About Longwood Elementary
Longwood Elementary sits in Hayward, California, and is classified as an elementary school. It enrolled 517 students in kindergarten through 6 for the 2024-25 school year.
Hayward Unified is responsible for 28 schools, Longwood Elementary included, with 17,273 students in all.
At 78%, Hispanic students outnumber all other groups at Longwood Elementary combined. Other students are 10% Asian, 4% Pacific Islander, 3% Black, and 2% White. By comparison, Alameda County residents are about 23% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at Longwood Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 37%.
Teacher staffing is 23 full-time equivalents, or about 22.5 students per teacher. Elementary schools in California have a similar average ratio of 22.3:1. About 82% of students, or 425, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Alameda County, the average is 49%.
Longwood Elementary falls short of its prediction by 15.3 points. The model expects 31.4% for a school with its free or reduced-price lunch share in California; the school's rate is 16.1%.
Federal survey data for Alameda County show that median household income is about $129,367, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 52% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. A total of 394 public schools operate in Alameda County, serving about 210,511 students.
The nearest other public school, Alameda County Community, is about 0.6 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Longwood Elementary. On state test proficiency, Longwood Elementary ranks 5th in a group of 5 nearby schools.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 552 to 517. Students per teacher fell from 24.0 in 2020-21 to 22.5 in 2024-25.
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Alameda County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,649,473
Census ACS
Median income
$129,367
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
52%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
394
210,511 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Hayward Unified
- Mt. Eden HighHigh · 1,865 students
- Hayward HighHigh · 1,580 students
- Tennyson HighHigh · 1,511 students
- Cherryland ElementaryElementary · 855 students
- Burbank ElementaryElementary · 800 students
- Harder ElementaryElementary · 671 students
Other schools in Hayward
- Mt. Eden HighHigh · 1,865 students
- Hayward HighHigh · 1,580 students
- Tennyson HighHigh · 1,511 students
- Cherryland ElementaryElementary · 855 students
- Burbank ElementaryElementary · 800 students
- Impact Academy of Arts & TechnologyHigh · 716 students
Other Longwood Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 3 states are named Longwood Elementary. Longwood Elementary is the 3rd largest of the 5.
- LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLLONGWOOD, FL · 573 students
- LONGWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSHALIMAR, FL · 555 students
- Longwood Elementary SchoolGlenwood, IL · 364 students
- Longwood Elementary SchoolNaperville, IL · 346 students
Nearby schools
- Alameda County Community0.6 mi · 73
- Opportunity Academy0.6 mi · 175
- Royal Sunset (Continuation)0.8 mi · 107
- Burbank Elementary1.0 mi · 800
- Park Elementary1.0 mi · 504
- Winton Middle1.1 mi · 582
Frequently asked questions
About Longwood ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Longwood Elementary?
Longwood Elementary enrolls approximately 517 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Longwood Elementary serve?
Longwood Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many teachers does Longwood Elementary have?
Longwood Elementary employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 22.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Longwood Elementary?
Student demographics at Longwood Elementary are roughly 2% White, 78% Hispanic, 3% Black, 10% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Longwood Elementary in?
Longwood Elementary is part of Hayward Unified.
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