Walnut Grove Elementary

Set in Pleasanton, California, Walnut Grove Elementary is a mid-tier elementary campus, overseen by Pleasanton Unified. It teaches 629 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 35% bigger than typical.

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

Looking at the student body, Walnut Grove Elementary shows that the largest single group is Asian, at 61% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 25% White, 8% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 33% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 26.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Walnut Grove Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 5% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Alameda County's rate of about 49%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Walnut Grove Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 76.5%, the actual is 81.4%, a residual of +4.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, Alameda County reports that the typical household earns roughly $129,367 per year, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Alameda County's 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), Walnut Grove Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Harvest Park Middle, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Walnut Grove Elementary comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 74.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Walnut Grove Elementary's enrollment has declined 14% since 2018, when it stood at 728 (now 629). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 54% to 25%.

On this page, members of the Walnut Grove Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.