Winton Middle

Winton Middle is a middle-grades school of medium-sized scale in Hayward, California, part of Hayward Unified, instructing 582 students in grades 7 through 8.

Hayward Unified runs 28 schools in total, collectively educating 17,273 students. Winton Middle is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Winton Middle reports that 77% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder comes out to 9% Asian, 7% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Roughly 86% of students at Winton Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Alameda County (around 49%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Winton Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.0%, the actual is 20.5%, a residual of -7.5 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Alameda County indicate median household earnings sit near $129,367, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Alameda County runs 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), of which Winton Middle is one.

The closest other public school is Park Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Winton Middle. On composite proficiency, Winton Middle comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 23.2%.

Winton Middle operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Winton Middle has expanded 14%, going from 509 students in 2018 to 582 in 2025.

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