Bay Area Technology

Bay Area Technology operates as an one-room-style senior high in Oakland, California, run under Bay Area Technology District. Current enrollment sits at 255 students spanning grades 6 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Bay Area Technology sits 70% leaner than that benchmark.

Bay Area Technology sits inside Bay Area Technology District, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Bay Area Technology lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 69%. Beyond that, the school shows 21% Black, 7% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 33.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Alameda County (around 49%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Zooming out to the county, Alameda County reports that the typical household earns roughly $129,367 per year, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Bay Area Technology is one of 394 public schools in Alameda County (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students).

Nearest neighbor: Rudsdale Continuation High, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bay Area Technology.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. Bay Area Technology operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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