Cleveland Elementary

Set in Oakland, California, Cleveland Elementary is a close-knit K-5 school, part of Oakland Unified. It hosts 376 students across grades K through 5.

Cleveland Elementary is one of 84 schools operated by Oakland Unified, a district that serves 33,973 students overall.

Demographically, Cleveland Elementary reports that the largest single group is Asian at 21%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 20% White, 19% Hispanic, 19% Black, 19% multiracial. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 33% Asian, so the school skews considerably less Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 56% of students at Cleveland Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Cleveland Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.2%, the actual is 57.9%, a residual of +11.7 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Alameda County put median household income runs about $129,367, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Cleveland Elementary is one of 394 public schools in Alameda County (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students).

Oakland High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cleveland Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cleveland Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 31.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cleveland Elementary has edged down 9%, going from 411 students in 2018 to 376 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share decreased from 36% to 21%.

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