Oak Tree Community Day

Oak Tree Community Day is one of the one-room-style elementary-level communitys in Palmdale, California, part of Palmdale Elementary, with 63 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Oak Tree Community Day sits 86% smaller than that benchmark.

Oak Tree Community Day is one of 29 schools operated by Palmdale Elementary, a district that hosts 17,941 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Oak Tree Community Day logs that the most-represented group is Black (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 35% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.

On the income-and-resources front, Oak Tree Community Day records 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Around the school, census data for Los Angeles County shows the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Oak Tree Community Day is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Palmdale Aerospace Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oak Tree Community Day.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 37%: 46 students in 2018 compared to 63 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 41% to 35%. Class-load math has loosened: from 6.3:1 in 2018 to 8.1:1 in 2025.

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