Carl B. Munck Elementary

Carl B. Munck Elementary is an elementary-level community of minimally staffed scale in Oakland, California, part of Oakland Unified, teacheing 151 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 68% below the state mean of about 465.

Carl B. Munck Elementary is one of 84 schools operated by Oakland Unified, a district that enrolls 33,973 students overall.

On demographics, Carl B. Munck Elementary logs that 52% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 19% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 9% Asian, 6% White. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 10% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Alameda County's rate of about 49%.

With demographic context factored in, Carl B. Munck Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.0%; this one delivers 27.8%.

Around the school, Alameda County reports that median household income runs about $129,367, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Alameda County runs 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), of which Carl B. Munck Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Hintil Kuu Ka Child Development Center, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Carl B. Munck Elementary comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 41.8%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 36%: 236 students in 2018 compared to 151 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 62% to 52% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.7:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 in 2025.

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