Live Oak Elementary

Live Oak Elementary, a moderately sized elementary campus in San Ramon, California, operated by San Ramon Valley Unified, educates 438 students, covering grades K through 5.

Across the 36 schools in San Ramon Valley Unified (28,554 students total), Live Oak Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Live Oak Elementary lists that the largest single group is Asian, at 72% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 9% White, 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 3% Black. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

In terms of school funding signals, Live Oak Elementary records 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 9% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Contra Costa County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Live Oak Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.1%, the actual is 76.3%, a residual of +2.2 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Contra Costa County shows the typical household earns roughly $127,229 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Contra Costa County's 280 public schools (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students), Live Oak Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Windemere Ranch Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Live Oak Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 79.3%.

Live Oak Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 51%: 885 students in 2018 compared to 438 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 80% to 72% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 25.7:1 in 2018 to 19.3:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.