Oakland Park Alternative Elementary

Oakland Park Alternative Elementary is an elementary-level community of intimate scale in Columbus, Ohio, overseen by Columbus City Schools District, hosting 295 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 404 students per school, that is 27% below typical.

Within Columbus City Schools District, which oversees 115 schools and 46,249 students, Oakland Park Alternative Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Oakland Park Alternative Elementary logs that Black students make up the majority at 58%. Other groups include 23% White, 12% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Franklin County as a whole is about 23% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.9:1 average.

In the area at large, Franklin County reports that median household income runs about $75,176, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Franklin County's 402 public schools (combined enrollment of about 195,359 students), Oakland Park Alternative Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Northtowne Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Oakland Park Alternative Elementary has shrank 13%, going from 338 students in 2018 to 295 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 29% to 23% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.9:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.