Grass Valley Elementary

Grass Valley Elementary, an one-room-style K-5 school in Oakland, California, operated by Oakland Unified, works with 182 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Grass Valley Elementary sits 61% smaller than that benchmark.

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

Looking at the student body, Grass Valley Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Black (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 35% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 10% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Grass Valley Elementary reports 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Alameda County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Grass Valley Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.5%, the actual is 16.9%, a residual of -6.7 points.

In the area at large, Alameda County reports that the typical household earns roughly $129,367 per year, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Alameda County's 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), Grass Valley Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is East Bay Innovation Academy, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Grass Valley Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 33.5%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 30%: 260 students in 2018 compared to 182 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 19% to 35% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 23.6:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 today.

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