Crocker Highlands Elementary

Located at 525 Midcrest Rd., in Oakland, California, Crocker Highlands Elementary is an average-sized K-5 school that hosts 415 students (grades K through 5), run under Oakland Unified.

Oakland Unified runs 84 schools in total, collectively educating 33,973 students. Crocker Highlands Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Crocker Highlands Elementary lists that the most-represented group is White (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 25% multiracial, 14% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 9% Black. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 30% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Crocker Highlands Elementary has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 22% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Alameda County's rate of about 49%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Crocker Highlands Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.2%; this one delivers 74.1%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Alameda County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $129,367 per year, 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 Crocker Highlands Elementary is one.

Edna Brewer Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Crocker Highlands Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 60.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 12%: 473 students in 2018 compared to 415 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 61% to 39% across the same window.

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