Mountain Oaks

Mountain Oaks operates as a cozy K-12 campus in San Andreas, California, one of the schools within Calaveras County Office of Education. Current enrollment sits at 425 students spanning grades K through 12. Compared to the state average of about 602 students per school, that is 29% below typical.

Across the 4 schools in Calaveras County Office of Education (463 students total), Mountain Oaks accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Mountain Oaks records that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% Native American. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Mountain Oaks logs 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 50.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.6:1, putting Mountain Oaks higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 52% of students at Mountain Oaks qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Mountain Oaks is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 48.2%; Mountain Oaks posts 25.9%, -22.4 points below that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Calaveras County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $78,647 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Calaveras County runs 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,261 students), of which Mountain Oaks is one.

The closest other public school is Calaveras River Academy, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Mountain Oaks. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mountain Oaks ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 23.0%.

The school occupies a small-town site. Mountain Oaks is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 7%: 458 students in 2018 compared to 425 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 23.0:1 in 2018 to 50.4:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.