Oakdale Heights Elementary

Set in Oroville, California, Oakdale Heights Elementary is a cozy elementary school, overseen by Oroville City Elementary. It educates 252 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Oakdale Heights Elementary sits 46% leaner than that benchmark.

Oroville City Elementary comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 1,950 students; Oakdale Heights Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Oakdale Heights Elementary reports that 35% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 28% Hispanic, 15% Asian, 15% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Butte County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Oakdale Heights Elementary has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.0:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 79% of students at Oakdale Heights Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Butte County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Oakdale Heights Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.5%; this one delivers 21.5%.

Across the wider county, Butte County reports that median household earnings sit near $67,928, 32% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Butte County's 96 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,730 students), Oakdale Heights Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Las Plumas High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Oakdale Heights Elementary. On composite proficiency, Oakdale Heights Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 26.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Oakdale Heights Elementary has ticked down 24%, going from 330 students in 2018 to 252 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 48% to 35% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 today.

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