La Escuelita

La Escuelita is a tight-knit elementary school in Oakland, California, operated by Oakland Unified. The school teaches 274 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 41% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Oakland Unified, which oversees 84 schools and 33,973 students, La Escuelita is one campus in the system.

Demographically, La Escuelita shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 18% Asian, 15% Black, 8% multiracial, 8% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 93% of students at La Escuelita qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Alameda County's rate of about 49%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, La Escuelita performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.8%, the actual is 22.4%, a residual of -1.4 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Alameda County put the typical household earns roughly $129,367 per year, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Alameda County's 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), La Escuelita is one campus in the mix.

MetWest 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. Among the 4 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), La Escuelita ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 38.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at La Escuelita has decreased 34%, going from 417 students in 2018 to 274 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment decreased from 56% to 49% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 26.1:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for La Escuelita typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.