Thousand Oaks Elementary

Thousand Oaks Elementary is a K-5 school of intimate scale in Berkeley, California, run under Berkeley Unified, caters to 337 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 28% leaner than typical.

Berkeley Unified runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 9,116 students. Thousand Oaks Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Thousand Oaks Elementary lists that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 23% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, 12% Asian, 4% Black. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 30% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Alameda County (around 49%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Thousand Oaks Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.9%, the actual is 67.5%, a residual of +4.6 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Alameda County shows the typical household earns roughly $129,367 per year, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Thousand Oaks Elementary is one of 394 public schools in Alameda County (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students).

Nearest neighbor: Marin Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Thousand Oaks Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Thousand Oaks Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 74.9%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 20%: 423 students in 2018 compared to 337 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 37% to 23% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 21.1:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, 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.