
Oakland Students and Poverty
Close to 90 percent of Oakland’s public school population are students of color. According to a new national study, students of color, specifically African American and Latino students, are more likely to attend high-poverty schools where the majority of their classmates qualify as poor or low-income.
- In roughly half of the 100 cities, most African American and Latino students attend schools where at least 75 percent of students qualify as poor or low-income
- Kids of color represent a majority of the student body in 83 of 100 cities
- In 58 cities, at least three-fourths of non-white students attend majority low-income schools

Oakland Achieves did not analyze the proportion of students of color that attend high-poverty schools, however CORE District, a new system that includes 10 California school districts and provides new holistic measurements of school performance by district schools, collects this data.
- 77 percent of Latino students attend a school where at least 75 percent of their classmates qualify as socioeconomically disadvantaged*
- 66 percent of African American students attend a school where at least 75 percent of their classmates qualify as socioeconomically disadvantaged*
- 16 percent of white students attend a school where at least 75 percent of their classmates qualify as socioeconomically disadvantaged*