Orchard Park

Orchard Park operates as a sprawling K-5 school in Oakley, California, one of the schools within Antioch Unified. Current enrollment sits at 751 students spanning grades K through 8. That puts it 62% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Antioch Unified runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 15,111 students. Orchard Park is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Orchard Park shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 17% White, 16% Black, 9% Asian, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Contra Costa County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Orchard Park higher than the state norm the norm. Around 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Contra Costa County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Orchard Park performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.3%, the actual is 30.2%, a residual of -6.0 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Contra Costa County indicate median household income runs about $127,229, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Orchard Park is one of 280 public schools in Contra Costa County (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students).

Vintage Parkway Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Orchard Park. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Orchard Park at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 32.3%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 3%: 773 students in 2018 compared to 751 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 24% to 17% across the same window.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.