Oakdale Charter

Oakdale Charter, an one-room-style secondary school in Oakdale, California, operated by Oakdale Joint Unified, educates 56 students, covering grades 7 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Oakdale Charter sits 93% smaller than that benchmark.

Oakdale Joint Unified comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 5,113 students; Oakdale Charter is among them.

Demographically, Oakdale Charter lists that White students make up the majority at 57%; the rest breaks down as 34% Hispanic, 4% Asian. By comparison, Stanislaus County as a whole is about 43% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 38% of students at Oakdale Charter qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Stanislaus County's rate of about 71%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Oakdale Charter is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 57.2%; Oakdale Charter posts 17.8%, -39.3 points below that line.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Stanislaus County indicate the typical household earns roughly $81,468 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Stanislaus County's 190 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students), Oakdale Charter is one campus in the mix.

Cloverland Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Oakdale Charter at 7th of 7; the average score across the group is 43.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area. Oakdale Charter operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Oakdale Charter has edged down 11%, going from 63 students in 2018 to 56 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 70% to 57% across the same window.

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