Oakland Bay Junior High School

Located at 3301 Shelton Springs Rd., in Shelton, Washington, Oakland Bay Junior High School is a mid-sized middle school that educates 544 students (grades 7 through 8), operated by Shelton School District.

Shelton School District comprises 10 schools with combined enrollment of 4,517 students; Oakland Bay Junior High School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Oakland Bay Junior High School reports that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 43% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Native American. By comparison, Mason County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Oakland Bay Junior High School records 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.0:1. The state averages around 18.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 66% of students at Oakland Bay Junior High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Oakland Bay Junior High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 36.2%; this one comes in at 21.3%, -14.9 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Mason County put median household earnings sit near $83,270, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Oakland Bay Junior High School is one of 26 public schools in Mason County (combined enrollment of about 8,539 students).

Nearest neighbor: Shelton High School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Oakland Bay Junior High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 29.6%.

Oakland Bay Junior High School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Oakland Bay Junior High School has shrank 22%, going from 699 students in 2018 to 544 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 30% to 43% across the same window.

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