Phoebe Apperson Hearst Elementary

Phoebe Apperson Hearst Elementary, a medium-sized K-5 school in Pleasanton, California, overseen by Pleasanton Unified, teaches 467 students, covering grades K through 5.

Pleasanton Unified runs 16 schools in total, collectively educating 13,302 students. Phoebe Apperson Hearst Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Phoebe Apperson Hearst Elementary lists that the largest single group is Asian at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 22% White, 15% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 33% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 16% of students at Phoebe Apperson Hearst Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Alameda County (around 49%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Phoebe Apperson Hearst Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.8%, the actual is 70.1%, a residual of +0.3 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Alameda County indicate 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%. Phoebe Apperson Hearst Elementary is one of 394 public schools in Alameda County (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students).

Nearest neighbor: Pleasanton Middle, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Phoebe Apperson Hearst Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Phoebe Apperson Hearst Elementary at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 71.0%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Phoebe Apperson Hearst Elementary has decreased 31%, going from 675 students in 2018 to 467 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 31% to 22% over that span.

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