Stonebrae Elementary

Stonebrae Elementary, a medium-sized primary school in Hayward, California, run under Hayward Unified, works with 605 students, covering grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 30% above typical.

Hayward Unified comprises 28 schools with combined enrollment of 17,273 students; Stonebrae Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Stonebrae Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 29% Asian, 15% multiracial, 9% White, 7% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the income-and-resources front, Stonebrae Elementary shows 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Stonebrae Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.2%; this one delivers 48.0%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Alameda County shows median household earnings sit near $129,367, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Alameda County's 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), Stonebrae Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Treeview Elementary, around 2.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Stonebrae Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 17.0%.

Stonebrae Elementary operates from a suburban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Stonebrae Elementary has declined 19%, going from 746 students in 2018 to 605 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 14% to 7% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 24.5:1 in 2018 to 21.8:1 today.

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