Live Oak High (Continuation)

Live Oak High (Continuation) is a four-year high school of very small scale in Antioch, California, part of Antioch Unified, teacheing 130 students in grades 10 through 12. That puts it 84% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Antioch Unified runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 15,111 students. Live Oak High (Continuation) is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Live Oak High (Continuation) shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 67% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 17% Black, 11% White, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. Around 90% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Contra Costa County's rate of about 45%.

In the area at large, Contra Costa County reports that the typical household earns roughly $127,229 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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), Live Oak High (Continuation) is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Antioch Middle, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Live Oak High (Continuation)'s enrollment has shrank 16% since 2018, when it stood at 155 (now 130). The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 45% to 67% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.