Oak Avenue Elementary

Oak Avenue Elementary is a primary school of cozy scale in Los Altos, California, operated by Los Altos Elementary, works with 334 students in grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 28% smaller than the state mean of about 465.

Across the 9 schools in Los Altos Elementary (3,368 students total), Oak Avenue Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Oak Avenue Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Asian (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 31% White, 12% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. That is considerably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Oak Avenue Elementary has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Oak Avenue Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 3% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Santa Clara County (around 37%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Oak Avenue Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 77.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 90.3%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Santa Clara County put the typical household earns roughly $164,281 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Oak Avenue Elementary is one of 412 public schools in Santa Clara County (combined enrollment of about 230,059 students).

Nearest neighbor: Mountain View High, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Oak Avenue Elementary comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 79.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 18%: 409 students in 2018 compared to 334 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 42% to 31% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 20.0:1 today.

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