Thomas S. Hart Middle

As a large middle school in Pleasanton, California, Thomas S. Hart Middle enrolls 1,129 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Pleasanton Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Thomas S. Hart Middle sits 71% larger than that benchmark.

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

In terms of who attends, Thomas S. Hart Middle logs that 65% of the student body identifies as Asian. Beyond that, the school logs 19% White, 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 33% Asian, putting the school's mix noticeably more Asian than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. An estimated 10% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Alameda County's rate of about 49%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Thomas S. Hart Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.5%, the actual is 78.8%, a residual of +5.2 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Alameda County put median household income runs about $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 Thomas S. Hart Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Donlon Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Thomas S. Hart Middle comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 76.2%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 9%: 1,247 students in 2018 compared to 1,129 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share climbed from 49% to 65%.

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