Demographics
Emery Secondary School (ESS) is a 9 th-12 th grade school serving 220 students in the small city of Emeryville, California. 84.95% of the school districts students live in poverty and 18.55% are English Language Learners. State redevelopment funding over the past decade that recently ceased brought several tech companies, big box stores, and luxury lofts to replace the abandoned industrial warehouses of Emeryville's past. The new commerce and housing have greatly improved serious economic and safety issues that plagued Emeryville for decades. However the new development in the city greatly contrasts with the experiences of my students and their families, many of which have lived in Emeryville and neighboring West Oakland for several generations. According to the 2010 US Census, the average household size in Emeryville is 1.68 persons. The shift in new luxury housing geared toward adults without children has forced many of our families to seek housing on the eastern, and older, edge of the city or in neighboring Oakland and Berkeley.
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