Thornton Junior High
Fremont, CA · Middle School · Grades 7-8
Thornton Junior High is a middle school in Fremont, CA with 1,302 students enrolled and a 69% proficiency rate. Part of Fremont Unified. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Thornton Junior High is a middle school located in Fremont, California. The school serves 1,302 students in grades 7-8. The student-to-teacher ratio is 26.0:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 69% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
17% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Thornton Junior High is part of the Fremont Unified in California.
How This School Compares
Thornton Junior High has 1,302 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Fremont Unified (769 students). Its 69% proficiency rate is 8 percentage points above the district average of 61%. Compared to the California state average of 45%, the school performs 24 points higher. The 26.0:1 student-teacher ratio is above the national average of 16:1.
Frequently Asked Questions
Thornton Junior High has 1,302 students enrolled in grades 7-8. The student-to-teacher ratio is 26.0:1.
According to EDFacts data, 69% of students at Thornton Junior High meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Thornton Junior High is part of the Fremont Unified in Fremont, California. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.