Community School for Creative Education

Set in Oakland, California, Community School for Creative Education is a rural-scale elementary school, part of Community School for Creative Education District. It teaches 183 students across grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Community School for Creative Education sits 61% leaner than that benchmark.

Operationally, Community School for Creative Education answers to Community School for Creative Education District, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Looking at the student body, Community School for Creative Education lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 67% of enrollment. Other groups include 19% Black, 5% Asian, 4% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 28.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Community School for Creative Education higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 89% of students at Community School for Creative Education qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Alameda County (around 49%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Alameda County indicate median household earnings sit near $129,367, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Alameda County runs 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), of which Community School for Creative Education is one.

Garfield Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a metropolitan site. As a public charter, Community School for Creative Education runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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