Gateway to College High at Laney College

Gateway to College High at Laney College is a secondary school of tiny scale in Oakland, California, run under Oakland Unified, educateing 104 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Gateway to College High at Laney College sits 88% leaner than that benchmark.

Oakland Unified comprises 84 schools with combined enrollment of 33,973 students; Gateway to College High at Laney College is among them.

Demographically, Gateway to College High at Laney College reports that 41% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 29% Black, 10% White, 10% multiracial, 9% Asian. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Roughly 82% of students at Gateway to College High at Laney College qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Alameda County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Alameda County indicate median household income runs about $129,367, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Alameda County's 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), Gateway to College High at Laney College is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: La Escuelita, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Gateway to College High at Laney College.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 16%: 90 students in 2018 compared to 104 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 16% to 10% over that span.

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