Alternatives in Action

This page covers Alternatives in Action, a very small high school in Oakland, California. The school covers grades 9 through 12 and reported 106 students in 2024-25. On average, high schools in California enroll around 838, and this school is 87% below that mark.

The school's district is Alternatives in Action District.

By race and ethnicity, Alternatives in Action is 83% Hispanic. The next largest groups are 8% Black and 8% multiracial. The school's Hispanic share is 60 points above the 23% share among Alameda County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 30%.

Alternatives in Action has a student-to-teacher ratio of 22.1:1, with 4.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for high schools in California is 18.2:1, so this school has more students per teacher. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 90% at Alternatives in Action. On average, public schools in Alameda County report 49%.

The county, Alameda County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $129,367 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 52%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Counting Alternatives in Action, Alameda County has 394 public schools.

Greenleaf is less than a tenth of a mile away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8.

Under the NCES locale system, Alternatives in Action is City: Large. Alternatives in Action is a public charter school.

Enrollment fell by 37% across 4 years, from 167 in 2020-21 to 106 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 20.9:1 in 2020-21 to 22.1:1 in 2024-25.

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