Oakdale Junior High

Located at 400 Maag Ave., in Oakdale, California, Oakdale Junior High is a mid-sized middle-grades school that works with 780 students (grades 7 through 8), part of Oakdale Joint Unified.

Oakdale Joint Unified runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 5,113 students. Oakdale Junior High is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Oakdale Junior High records that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 42% Hispanic, 2% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Stanislaus County as a whole is about 43% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Oakdale Junior High has 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. About 38% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Stanislaus County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Oakdale Junior High is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 56.7%; Oakdale Junior High posts 39.5%, -17.2 points below that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Stanislaus County put the typical household earns roughly $81,468 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Oakdale Junior High is one of 190 public schools in Stanislaus County (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students).

Sierra View Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Oakdale Junior High comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 40.2%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Oakdale Junior High's enrollment has decreased 8% since 2018, when it stood at 850 (now 780). Hispanic enrollment moved from 38% to 42% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 25.6:1 in 2018 to 22.0:1 in 2025.

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