Blue Oak Academy

Blue Oak Academy, an average-sized primary school in Visalia, California, operated by Blue Oak Academy District, enrolls 430 students, covering grades K through 8.

Blue Oak Academy is a school of Blue Oak Academy District, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On demographics, Blue Oak Academy logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 59% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 37% White, 3% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 38% of students at Blue Oak Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Tulare County's rate of about 77%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Tulare County) records that the typical household earns roughly $71,300 per year, about 17% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Tulare County's 196 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students), Blue Oak Academy is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Farmersville Junior High, roughly 1.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area. Blue Oak Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Blue Oak Academy community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.