Piedmont Avenue Elementary

Piedmont Avenue Elementary operates as a low-enrollment K-5 school in Oakland, California, part of Oakland Unified. Current enrollment sits at 310 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 33% smaller than the state mean of about 465.

Piedmont Avenue Elementary is one of 84 schools operated by Oakland Unified, a district that caters to 33,973 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Piedmont Avenue Elementary logs that the largest single group is Black at 43%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 25% Hispanic, 19% multiracial, 7% White, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 10% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Piedmont Avenue Elementary has 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.1:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 81% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Alameda County (around 49%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Piedmont Avenue Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 31.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 25.7%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Alameda County indicate median household earnings sit near $129,367, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Alameda County runs 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), of which Piedmont Avenue Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Beach Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Piedmont Avenue Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Piedmont Avenue Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 69.2%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Piedmont Avenue Elementary's enrollment has decreased 7% since 2018, when it stood at 334 (now 310). The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 51% to 43% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 23.9:1 in 2018 to 22.1:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.