Oakland High School

Oakland High School is a four-year high school of micro-enrollment scale in Tacoma, Washington, one of the schools within Tacoma School District, instructing 112 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 80% below the state mean of about 573.

Tacoma School District runs 66 schools in total, collectively educating 28,900 students. Oakland High School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Oakland High School logs that the most-represented group is White (33%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 23% Black, 19% Hispanic, 15% multiracial, 8% Pacific Islander. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. Around 82% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Pierce County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, Pierce County reports that median household income runs about $99,564, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Pierce County's 287 public schools (combined enrollment of about 138,462 students), Oakland High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Insight School of WA Open Doors Program, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Oakland High School operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 40%: 187 students in 2018 compared to 112 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 30% to 23% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 22.4:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Oakland High School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.