Westlake Middle

Westlake Middle is a low-enrollment middle school in Oakland, California, run under Oakland Unified. The school hosts 279 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Westlake Middle sits 58% below that benchmark.

Westlake Middle is one of 84 schools operated by Oakland Unified, a district that hosts 33,973 students overall.

On demographics, Westlake Middle shows that 43% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 32% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 8% Asian, 6% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

On the resource side, The school reports having 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Alameda County's rate of about 49%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Westlake Middle sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 24.8%; actual is 10.1%, a gap of -14.7 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Alameda County indicate median household income runs about $129,367, roughly 52% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Alameda County's 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), Westlake Middle is one campus in the mix.

Street Academy Alternative High 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. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Westlake Middle at 4th of 4; the average score across the group is 38.7%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 22%: 360 students in 2018 compared to 279 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 51% to 43%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

On this page, 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.