Bridges @ Melrose Academy Elementary

Bridges @ Melrose Academy Elementary is one of the compact elementary campuss in Oakland, California, operated by Oakland Unified, with 389 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Across the 84 schools in Oakland Unified (33,973 students total), Bridges @ Melrose Academy Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Bridges @ Melrose Academy Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (93%); the rest reads as 3% Black. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Bridges @ Melrose Academy Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Alameda County (around 49%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Bridges @ Melrose Academy Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 19.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 7.7%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Alameda County put median household income runs about $129,367, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Bridges @ Melrose Academy Elementary is one of 394 public schools in Alameda County (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students).

Fremont High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bridges @ Melrose Academy Elementary. On composite proficiency, Bridges @ Melrose Academy Elementary comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 12.6%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Bridges @ Melrose Academy Elementary's enrollment has shrank 12% since 2018, when it stood at 442 (now 389). The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 88% to 93% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 27.6:1 in 2018 to 21.0:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Bridges @ Melrose Academy Elementary typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.