Manzanita Community Elementary

Manzanita Community Elementary is one of the small elementary campuss in Oakland, California, overseen by Oakland Unified, with 335 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Manzanita Community Elementary sits 28% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 84 schools in Oakland Unified (33,973 students total), Manzanita Community Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Manzanita Community Elementary shows that 56% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 22% Black, 11% Asian, 5% multiracial, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Alameda County's rate of about 49%.

With demographic context factored in, Manzanita Community Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.0%, the actual is 8.4%, a residual of -12.5 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Alameda County) logs that median household income runs about $129,367, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Alameda County runs 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), of which Manzanita Community Elementary is one.

Manzanita SEED Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Manzanita Community Elementary. On composite proficiency, Manzanita Community Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 19.3%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 24%: 438 students in 2018 compared to 335 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 47% to 56% over that span.

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