Young Adult Program

Located at 915 54th St., in Oakland, California, Young Adult Program is an one-room-style high school that works with 126 students (grade 12), one of the schools within Oakland Unified. That puts it 85% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 838 students.

Oakland Unified comprises 84 schools with combined enrollment of 33,973 students; Young Adult Program is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Young Adult Program shows that the largest single group is Black at 38%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 36% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 8% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Alameda County as a whole is about 10% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 87% 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%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Alameda County) records that median household income runs about $129,367, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Alameda County's 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), Young Adult Program is one campus in the mix.

Home and Hospital Program is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Young Adult Program.

Young Adult Program operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Young Adult Program has rose 54%, going from 82 students in 2018 to 126 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 54% to 38% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 164.0:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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