Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Newark Middle, Newark, CA

CEP schoolNewark Middle is a public middle school in Newark, part of Newark Unified. It enrolled 980 students in 2024-25, with 22.8 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 980
Teachers (FTE): 43.0
Students per teacher: 22.8
Grades: 6 to 8

This school's ratio is 1.8 lower than the district figure of 24.6. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school22.8

District24.6

California21.9

United States15.3

School details

Address: 6201 Lafayette Ave., Newark, CA 94560
Phone: (510)818-3000
District: Newark Unified
County: Alameda County
Level: Middle
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: Suburb: Large
NCES school ID: 062706007796

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 359
Reduced-price lunch: 34
Free or reduced-price lunch: 39340.1% of enrollment.
Direct certification: 270Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision: Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.