Prescott Elementary

Located at 920 Campbell St., in Oakland, California, Prescott Elementary is a minimally staffed elementary campus that teaches 135 students (grades K through 5), run under Oakland Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Prescott Elementary sits 71% smaller than that benchmark.

Oakland Unified runs 84 schools in total, collectively educating 33,973 students. Prescott Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Prescott Elementary reports that Black students make up the majority at 57%. Beyond that, the school records 25% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 6% White, 2% Asian. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 10% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Prescott Elementary has 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Alameda County's rate of about 49%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Prescott Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.0%, the actual is 18.4%, a residual of -4.6 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Alameda County) reports that median household income runs about $129,367, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Alameda County runs 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), of which Prescott Elementary is one.

West Oakland Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Prescott Elementary comes 1st of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 11.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Over the past 7-year window. Prescott Elementary's enrollment has fell 25% since 2018, when it stood at 181 (now 135). Black enrollment moved from 64% to 57% across the same window.

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