Summary
La Escuelita is a K–5 school serving 274 students in Oakland, within Oakland Unified. Its 2025–26 results show that the biggest concern is broad: proficiency was below both the state and district averages in English language arts, math, and science.
Math is the school’s strongest subject compared with the state, with a 24-point gap, while ELA is closest to the district, 12 points behind. Still, nearby district schools generally perform better: La Escuelita’s proficiency was about 8 points below the nearby-school average in ELA, 19 points below it in math, and 18 points below it in science. It ranked second-lowest among nearby district schools in ELA and science, and second-lowest among seven in math. Grade 4 math stands out as a particular weakness: 7% of students were proficient, more than all but one nearby school with grade-level results. Grade 5 ELA was a relative bright spot at 31%, higher than at Martin Luther King Junior Elementary and Garfield Elementary, though below four other nearby schools.
ELA and math proficiency fell between 2022–23 and 2025–26, from 27% to 22% and from 20% to 15%, respectively; their gaps with the state widened by 7 and 9 points. Science gained 2 points overall, but its state gap widened by 4 points. SchoolDigger places La Escuelita at the 6th statewide percentile, ranks it 5,428 of 5,804, and gives it 0 stars; its percentile has fallen 12 points since 2022–23. The student–teacher ratio was 26 in 2024–25, higher than at five of six nearby district schools with same-year figures. In that year, 93% of students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible. The SchoolDigger statewide percentile for English Language Learner Students, an indicator of how well the school serves this group, fell from 75 in 2021–22 to 20 in 2023–24, while the school’s overall percentile was 16 that year; no later subgroup results are provided. Chronic absenteeism also rose, reaching 33% in 2025–26, compared with 30% districtwide and 18% statewide.
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