Laurel Elementary

Laurel Elementary operates as a low-enrollment elementary school in Oakley, California, run under Oakley Union Elementary. Current enrollment sits at 342 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 26% below the state mean of about 465.

Oakley Union Elementary comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 5,119 students; Laurel Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Laurel Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 33% White, 5% multiracial, 5% Asian, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Laurel Elementary records 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Laurel Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 41% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Laurel Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 54.9%; this one comes in at 36.8%, -18.1 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Contra Costa County) logs that median household income runs about $127,229, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Contra Costa County's 280 public schools (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students), Laurel Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: O'Hara Park Middle, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Laurel Elementary. On composite proficiency, Laurel Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 35.2%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 28%: 475 students in 2018 compared to 342 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 41% to 33%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 22.6:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 today.

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