Claremont Middle, Oakland CA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Claremont Middle

Claremont Middle sits on College Avenue in the Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland, one of the city's most walkable and commercially active residential corridors, lined with independent cafes, boutiques, and Craftsman bungalows. The school serves sixth through eighth grade as a regular public school within Oakland Unified, and its enrollment is a manageable size for a middle school serving those three grade levels, distributed fairly evenly across each year.

The student body is genuinely diverse across racial and ethnic lines. Black students make up the largest share, followed by white students, students of two or more races, Hispanic students, and smaller shares of Asian and Pacific Islander students. A majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which places the school in a different socioeconomic position than the surrounding Rockridge neighborhood, where housing costs rank among the highest in the state and far above both state and national medians. Rents in the area have edged upward over the past year. Data on English learners and students with IEPs were not reported in what was available, so a parent with a child who needs those services should ask the school directly about program depth and staffing.

On state assessments, the school's performance places it above the midpoint among districts in Alameda County when proficiency across tested subjects and grades is combined into a single index. Looking at the individual results: in English language arts, proficiency rates are solid across all three grade levels, ranging from the mid-sixties into the upper sixties, which represents genuine strength relative to many Oakland schools. Math tells a different story. Sixth graders perform well above the state middle school average, but proficiency drops through seventh grade and again in eighth, where fewer than half of students scored at or above the standard. Science results for eighth graders, reported on the California Science Test, show roughly two in five students meeting standards. Trend data covers only the most recent year, so it is not possible to say whether these figures represent improvement, decline, or stability. A parent who wants to understand trajectory should ask the school what its internal data shows over the past three to four years.

The school has no graduation rate to report because it does not serve high school grades, and there are no AP or dual-enrollment courses to evaluate at the middle school level. Program offerings were not reported in the data available, so what electives, arts, athletics, or support services Claremont provides beyond core academics is a gap worth exploring directly. Chronic absenteeism data was also not available.

Oakland Unified's district-level priorities were not clearly documented in the research conducted here. Search results related to Oakland focused primarily on city tax measures rather than school district actions, so the district brief is largely empty and that gap is named honestly rather than filled.

The broader Oakland context shapes what attending Claremont looks like day to day. Rockridge in particular has strong pedestrian infrastructure, and students coming from nearby neighborhoods have reasonable walking and transit options. BART's Rockridge station is close. The city itself is layered and varied: arts and cultural institutions, Lake Merritt, a dense public library system, and a BART network that connects to the wider Bay Area are all accessible. Market-rate housing construction has slowed while publicly reported affordable housing development has accelerated in recent years across Oakland, which means the city's demographic and neighborhood composition may continue to shift.

Claremont fits a family looking for a racially and economically mixed public middle school in one of Oakland's more residential and walkable neighborhoods, with stronger reading results than math, and a position that holds up reasonably well against other Alameda County schools. Families whose student struggles in math, or who need detailed special education or English learner services, will want to press the school for specifics before making a decision.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 658%

School 58% · District 21% · ▲ 37 pts above district

▲ 27 pts above state median · ▲ 26 pts above county median

Grade 752%

School 52% · District 25% · ▲ 27 pts above district

▲ 22 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Grade 846%

School 46% · District 21% · ▲ 25 pts above district

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 13 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 668%

School 68% · District 30% · ▲ 38 pts above district

▲ 24 pts above state median · ▲ 24 pts above county median

Grade 764%

School 64% · District 35% · ▲ 29 pts above district

▲ 18 pts above state median · ▲ 14 pts above county median

Grade 866%

School 66% · District 34% · ▲ 33 pts above district

▲ 22 pts above state median · ▲ 18 pts above county median

Science

Grade 841%

School 41% · District 21% · ▲ 20 pts above district

▲ 15 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Social studies

Grade 846%

School 46% · District 30% · ▲ 16 pts above district

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

This schoolOakland 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.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 6Lower-income49%Higher-income87%38 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income41%Higher-income86%45 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income51%Higher-income86%35 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income36%Higher-income81%45 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income29%Higher-income77%48 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income26%Higher-income72%47 pp gap