Claremont Middle

Set in Oakland, California, Claremont Middle is a cozy intermediate school, one of the schools within Oakland Unified. It caters to 487 students across grades 6 through 8. That puts it 26% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Claremont Middle is one of 84 schools operated by Oakland Unified, a district that enrolls 33,973 students overall.

On demographics, Claremont Middle shows that 28% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 26% Black, 22% multiracial, 17% Hispanic, 7% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, On paper, Claremont Middle has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Claremont Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.2%; this one delivers 52.1%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Alameda County) records that 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%. In all, Alameda County runs 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), of which Claremont Middle is one.

Peralta 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 Claremont Middle. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Claremont Middle at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 54.9%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Claremont Middle's enrollment has edged up 3% since 2018, when it stood at 474 (now 487). Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 33% to 26%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 21.6:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 in 2025.

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