Achieve Academy

Achieve Academy is an elementary campus of average-sized scale in Oakland, California, run under Achieve Academy District, hosting 537 students in grades K through 5.

Achieve Academy District is the operating authority for Achieve Academy, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On demographics, Achieve Academy records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%); the rest looks like 5% Black. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Achieve Academy has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.5:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Alameda County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Alameda County indicate median household income runs about $129,367, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Alameda County's 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), Achieve Academy is one campus in the mix.

Urban Promise Academy Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in an urban setting. As a public charter, Achieve Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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