Oak Avenue Elementary

Located at 1239 Oak Ave., in Greenfield, California, Oak Avenue Elementary is a medium-sized elementary-level community that educates 693 students (grades K through 6), overseen by Greenfield Union Elementary. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Oak Avenue Elementary sits 49% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Greenfield Union Elementary, which oversees 5 schools and 3,319 students, Oak Avenue Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Oak Avenue Elementary records that 98% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 62%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 87% of students at Oak Avenue Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Monterey County runs at roughly 76%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Oak Avenue Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.8%, the actual is 25.4%, a residual of -2.5 points.

Across the wider county, Monterey County reports that the typical household earns roughly $97,230 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Oak Avenue Elementary is one of 153 public schools in Monterey County (combined enrollment of about 73,845 students).

The closest other public school is Vista Verde Middle, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Oak Avenue Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 25.2%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Oak Avenue Elementary's enrollment has contracted 12% since 2018, when it stood at 784 (now 693). Class-load math has narrowed: from 25.3:1 in 2018 to 22.7:1 in 2025.

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