Frick United Academy of Language Middle

As a low-enrollment intermediate school in Oakland, California, Frick United Academy of Language Middle enrolls 392 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Oakland Unified. Enrollment runs roughly 41% leaner than the state mean of about 659.

Frick United Academy of Language Middle is one of 84 schools operated by Oakland Unified, a district that educates 33,973 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Frick United Academy of Language Middle shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 71% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 18% Black, 3% White, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Alameda County (around 49%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Frick United Academy of Language Middle falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 20.1%; this one comes in at 2.8%, -17.2 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, census data for Alameda County shows median household income runs about $129,367, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Frick United Academy of Language Middle is one of 394 public schools in Alameda County (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students).

Oakland Unity High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Frick United Academy of Language Middle comes 4th of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 12.3%.

Frick United Academy of Language Middle operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 73%: 227 students in 2018 compared to 392 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 43% to 18% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 today.

On allk12, the feed for Frick United Academy of Language Middle typically covers sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.