Chabot Elementary

Chabot Elementary is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary-level communitys in Oakland, California, run under Oakland Unified, with 576 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 24% above typical.

Within Oakland Unified, which oversees 84 schools and 33,973 students, Chabot Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Chabot Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 20% multiracial, 17% Black, 16% Hispanic, 6% Asian. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 30% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Chabot Elementary shows 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Alameda County (around 49%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Chabot Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.4%, the actual is 70.8%, a residual of +12.4 points.

Around the school, Alameda County reports that the typical household earns roughly $129,367 per year, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Chabot Elementary is one of 394 public schools in Alameda County (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students).

John Muir Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chabot Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Chabot Elementary at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 67.8%.

Chabot Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Looking at the recent track record. Chabot Elementary's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 567 (now 576). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 56% to 40%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 26.4:1 in 2018 to 24.0:1 today.

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