Public school / Primary
Birch Grove Primary
Newark, California
- NCES ID
- 062706004079
- District
- Newark Unified
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Birch Grove Primary is a public primary school in Newark, California, run by Newark Unified. It enrols 399 students — the 51054th largest of 10,418 public schools in California.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
399
Teachers
16.0
Students per teacher
24.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
30.3%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Newark Unified
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Newark Memorial High1,510 students
- 2Newark Junior High1,047 students
- 3John F. Kennedy Elementary465 students
- 4Coyote Hills Elementary451 students
- 5Birch Grove Primary399 students
- 6August Schilling Elementary321 students
- 7Lincoln Elementary319 students
- 8Birch Grove Intermediate315 students
- Enrollment−15.8%
- Teachers−23.8%
- Students per teacher+12.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−55.4%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory