Oakwood CUSD 76

Oakwood CUSD 76 has two schools: Oakwood Grade School serves prekindergarten through grade 8 (573 students), and Oakwood High School serves grades 9–12 (256 students). Their results do not support a like-for-like overall ranking, but both schools’ clearest academic concern is mathematics: the grade school’s all-grades rate was 20%, 20 percentage points below the state, while high-school math was 6 points below the state on the ACT and 18 points below in grades 9 and 10 on the PreACT.

Oakwood Grade School stands out positively in 8th-grade science, where 61% were proficient, 10 points above the state; its 5th-grade science result was 25%, 23 points below the state. At Oakwood High School, 11th-grade ACT results were strongest relative to state rates: ELA was 2 points above, and science was 47.7% versus 47.9% statewide, just 0.2 points below. The high school’s 9th- and 10th-grade math results were lower, at 24% and 19%, compared with state rates of 42% and 36%.

Recent progress is uneven. At Oakwood Grade School, all-grades ELA rose from 28% to 40% between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, narrowing its state gap by 8 points, while math rose just 1 point and remained about 20 points below the state. Grade 8 science rose 21 points. At Oakwood High School, ACT math and science each rose about 13 points, but grade 10 PreACT ELA fell 12 points and math fell 7. SchoolDigger ranks the grade school at the 8th percentile (0 stars) and the high school at the 39th percentile (2 stars); these rankings declined over three years despite some score gains. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible rates were 51.0% at the grade school and 51.6% at the high school. Student-teacher ratios were 13.2 and 11.9, respectively; 2025–2026 chronic absenteeism was 17% and 27%.