Central Alameda News

Out of 9,255 students enrolled in Castro Valley Unified School District, 7.8 percent were in ninth-grade during the 2018-2019 school year, according to the California Department of Education.

The grade with the highest concentration of students was 10th-grade with 8.4 percent of all students.

According to numbers provided by the National Center for Education Services, California is expected to see a decrease of three percent in public elementary and secondary school enrollment from 2017-2029. The state expected to see the largest drop in enrollment is New Mexico with a projected 12 percent decrease, while Washington D.C. is projected to see a 14 percent increase over the same time period.

In a survey conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, seven percent of respondents said large class sizes was the biggest issue facing California's K-12 schools. In the same survey, 50 percent of the respondents said they didn’t view the financial resources their local public school was getting as adequate.

Grade	Number of students	Total %
Kindergarten	745	8
First	646	7
Second	679	7.3
Third	665	7.2
Fourth	667	7.2
Fifth	691	7.5
Sixth	713	7.7
Seventh	722	7.8
Eighth	738	8
Ninth	720	7.8
10th	781	8.4
11th	752	8.1
12th	736	8