Newark Middle

Newark Middle, a mid-tier middle school in Newark, California, one of the schools within Newark Unified, teaches 980 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 659 students per school, that is 49% above typical.

Within Newark Unified, which oversees 10 schools and 4,661 students, Newark Middle is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Newark Middle logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 23% Asian, 8% White, 8% multiracial, 3% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Newark Middle higher than the state norm the norm. Around 40% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Alameda County's rate of about 49%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Newark Middle sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 55.6%; actual is 36.0%, a gap of -19.6 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Alameda County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $129,367 per year, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Alameda County runs 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), of which Newark Middle is one.

Coyote Hills Elementary 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. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Newark Middle at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 39.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 12%: 876 students in 2018 compared to 980 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 30.3:1 in 2018 to 22.5:1 today.

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