Malcolm X Elementary

As a moderately sized primary school in Berkeley, California, Malcolm X Elementary works with 469 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Berkeley Unified.

Berkeley Unified comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 9,116 students; Malcolm X Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Malcolm X Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 18% multiracial, 16% Black, 15% Hispanic, 8% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 30% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Malcolm X Elementary reports 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.4:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 32% of students at Malcolm X Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Alameda County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Malcolm X Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.7%; this one delivers 64.2%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Alameda County indicate the typical household earns roughly $129,367 per year, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Malcolm X Elementary is one of 394 public schools in Alameda County (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students).

Nearest neighbor: Berkeley Technology Academy, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Malcolm X Elementary at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 62.4%.

Malcolm X Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Looking at the recent track record. Malcolm X Elementary's enrollment has edged down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 551 (now 469). White enrollment moved from 48% to 42% across the same window.

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