Montclair Elementary

Montclair Elementary is one of the moderately sized elementary schools in Oakland, California, operated by Oakland Unified, with 547 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

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

Looking at the student body, Montclair Elementary shows that the largest single group is White at 30%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 24% multiracial, 22% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 12% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Alameda County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 35% of students at Montclair Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Alameda County's rate of about 49%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Montclair Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.4%, the actual is 67.1%, a residual of +8.7 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Alameda County) logs that 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%. In all, Alameda County runs 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), of which Montclair Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Thornhill Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Montclair Elementary at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 68.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Montclair Elementary has contracted 14%, going from 634 students in 2018 to 547 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 43% to 30% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.9:1 in 2018 to 22.8:1 in 2025.

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