NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools CA

Best-Resourced Schools in Union City, CA

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11 public K-12 schools in Union City from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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11
Schools
10,025
Students
23.5/100
Avg Resource Index
23.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Large system with a dominant campus

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Union City has more public-school enrollment than 80% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Union City sits near the top of the national city distribution by public-school enrollment, while James Logan High alone enrolls 30.9% of local students. The city total therefore does not describe a uniform market: one large campus materially shapes the aggregate, and the remaining schools operate at a different scale. Read the ranked table alongside each campus profile rather than treating the city mean as a typical school.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

6 of Union City's 11 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 2 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 35-point gap between Connecting Waters Charter - East Bay and Guy Jr. Emanuele Elementary shows the range hidden by Union City's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 20%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
3rd percentile
Teacher staffing
5th percentile

James Logan High accounts for 30.9% of all Union City public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Union City-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Union City school enrollment varies 13× across entities

Union City school enrollment ranges from 233 students (lowest) to 3,096 students (highest), a spread of 2,863 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Union City student-teacher ratio is 23.1:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Connecting Waters Charter - East Bay 45
2. Decoto School for Independent Study 40
3. James Logan High 38
4. Itliong-Vera Cruz 28
5. Cesar Chavez Middle 25
6. Delaine Eastin Elementary 20
7. Pioneer Elementary 19
8. Searles Elementary 12
9. Alvarado Elementary 11
10. Guy Jr. Emanuele Elementary 10
11. Tom Kitayama Elementary 10

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Union City

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Connecting Waters Charter - East Bay 70.2/100
  2. 2 Decoto School for Independent Study 69.5/100
  3. 3 Alvarado Elementary 66.0/100
  4. 4 Tom Kitayama Elementary 64.5/100
  5. 5 James Logan High 63.8/100

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Which Union City school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Connecting Waters Charter - East Bay has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Union City schools in this federal-data comparison at 45/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Union City, CA? ▼

Union City has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 10,025 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 23.1:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.