Pleasanton Middle

Pleasanton Middle operates as a mid-tier middle school in Pleasanton, California, run under Pleasanton Unified. Current enrollment sits at 944 students spanning grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 43% larger than the state mean of about 659.

Within Pleasanton Unified, which oversees 16 schools and 13,302 students, Pleasanton Middle is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Pleasanton Middle shows that 43% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder reads as 28% White, 19% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 33% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.4:1. The state averages about 20.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 15% of students at Pleasanton Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Alameda County's rate of about 49%.

After controlling for student poverty, Pleasanton Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 70.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 67.5%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Alameda County) logs that median household earnings sit near $129,367, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Alameda County runs 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), of which Pleasanton Middle is one.

Phoebe Apperson Hearst Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Pleasanton Middle comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 71.5%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pleasanton Middle has declined 24%, going from 1,238 students in 2018 to 944 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 45% to 28% across the same window.

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