Oak Street Elementary, Inglewood CA

Original Research by School Decision on Oak Street Elementary

Oak Street Elementary is a kindergarten-through-eighth-grade school in Inglewood serving just under five hundred students, the majority of them Hispanic and living in households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The school sits in a city undergoing rapid transformation around the SoFi Stadium district and the Metro K Line, with new housing and commercial development reshaping neighborhoods while long-time residents face rising property pressure.

Academically, Oak Street's results are quite low across state testing. In English language arts, performance runs weak through most grades, though seventh and eighth grade show a modest lift. Math proficiency is substantially weaker, with particularly steep drops in the upper grades: eighth grade math proficiency sits in the single digits, and sixth and seventh grade are also very low. Science testing, available in fifth and eighth grade, shows similarly weak results. The school's overall proficiency index places it in the bottom quartile relative to other schools in Los Angeles County.

A parent should understand that these numbers reflect real academic gaps and signal a need to investigate what academic supports the school has in place. The school's peer environment is deeply low-income, with the vast majority of families qualifying for subsidized lunch, and the enrollment base is predominantly Hispanic. This composition is stable across the grade bands served, though enrollment tapers in the upper grades, with eighth grade particularly small.

Oak Street operates within Inglewood Unified, a district under state and county receivership for an extended period. That receivership means that local families, teachers, and the elected school board have had no authority over key decisions ranging from school closures to budget priorities. However, publicly reported information indicates that the district may return to local control as early as 2027, pending a state audit in early 2026. Until then, decisions about resource allocation and school operations flow through a state or county administrator. Alongside receivership, the district faces ongoing financial strain from repayment of a state emergency loan, declining enrollment citywide, and chronic absenteeism. These pressures have already driven school closures and consolidations. A parent considering this school should weigh both the immediate academic performance and the broader district instability that shapes resource availability and planning horizon.

The city of Inglewood itself offers a walkable historic downtown core along Market Street, a new Metro K Line transit station, and a growing base of new housing and mixed-use development. Large parks, including the 55-acre Edward Vincent Jr. Park, provide recreation. Housing costs in the 90301 zip code are substantial and rising, and rental availability has increased with new apartment construction, though affordability remains tight relative to area incomes. The school is located in a dense residential neighborhood, not in isolation, and students would have access to the city's emerging pedestrian and transit infrastructure.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 329%

School 29% · District 34% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▼ 14 pts below state median · ▼ 17 pts below county median

Grade 414%

School 14% · District 22% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▼ 23 pts below state median · ▼ 26 pts below county median

Grade 528%

School 28% · District 20% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▼ 3 pts below state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 68%

School 8% · District 14% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▼ 22 pts below state median · ▼ 23 pts below county median

Grade 79%

School 9% · District 15% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 21 pts below state median · ▼ 21 pts below county median

Grade 84%

School 4% · District 20% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 24 pts below state median · ▼ 25 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 323%

School 23% · District 31% · ▼ 8 pts below district

▼ 17 pts below state median · ▼ 19 pts below county median

Grade 416%

School 16% · District 27% · ▼ 11 pts below district

▼ 26 pts below state median · ▼ 28 pts below county median

Grade 539%

School 39% · District 31% · ▲ 8 pts above district

▼ 7 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Grade 620%

School 20% · District 25% · ▼ 5 pts below district

▼ 23 pts below state median · ▼ 24 pts below county median

Grade 742%

School 42% · District 36% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▼ 4 pts below state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 842%

School 42% · District 45% · ▼ 3 pts below district

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Science

Grade 518%

School 18% · District 14% · ▲ 4 pts above district

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Grade 823%

School 23% · District 24%

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

This schoolInglewood Unified, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.