Ruth Acty Elementary

Ruth Acty Elementary operates as a mid-tier elementary school in Berkeley, California, run under Berkeley Unified. Current enrollment sits at 410 students spanning grades K through 5.

Within Berkeley Unified, which oversees 17 schools and 9,116 students, Ruth Acty Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Ruth Acty Elementary logs that 41% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 27% multiracial, 15% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 8% Black. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Ruth Acty Elementary reports 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.6:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 24% of students at Ruth Acty 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.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Ruth Acty Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 65.4%; Ruth Acty Elementary posts 87.1%, +21.7 points above that line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Alameda County put the typical household earns roughly $129,367 per year, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Alameda County's 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), Ruth Acty Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Martin Luther King Middle, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ruth Acty Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 67.5%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ruth Acty Elementary has changed only slightly, going from 408 students in 2018 to 410 in 2025.

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