About Castro Valley Unified School District
Castro Valley Unified School District is a public school system serving Alameda County, California, based in Castro Valley. It serves 9,570 students across 16 schools spanning K–12, and is classified as a suburb: large district. By enrollment it is the #157 largest of California’s 1976 school systems.
Size and structure
Castro Valley Unified School District enrolls 9,570 students in 16 schools — an average of about 598 students per school. It serves grades K–12 and ranks #157 of 1976 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Castro Valley Unified School District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (9,570 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Castro Valley Unified School District employs about 414 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 23.1:1 — above the California average of about 21.7:1. Total district staff is roughly 898.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How California funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Castro Valley Unified School District are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
California reports school and district performance on the California School Dashboard, which rates indicators from red to blue across academic performance in English and math, chronic absenteeism, graduation rate, suspension rate, English-learner progress and college-and-career readiness. Look up Castro Valley Unified School District on the California School Dashboard.
Accreditation status
In California, most schools that seek K–12 accreditation use ACS WASC (the Accrediting Commission for Schools, Western Association of Schools and Colleges) rather than Cognia. Search Castro Valley Unified School District’s schools in the ACS WASC directory.
Castro Valley Unified School District vs. California
See every California district side by side in the California directory.
Look up Castro Valley Unified School District’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):