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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Downtown Charter Academy, Oakland, CA

Charter schoolCEP schoolDowntown Charter Academy is a public middle school in Oakland, part of Downtown Charter Academy District. It enrolled 305 students in 2024-25, with 23.5 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
305
Teachers (FTE)
13.0
Students per teacher
23.5
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 23.5. The California average across schools is 21.9. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school23.5
District23.5
California21.9
United States15.3

School details

Address
2000 Dennison St., Oakland, CA 94606
Phone
(510)535-1580
District
Downtown Charter Academy District
County
Alameda County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
Yes
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Large
NCES school ID
060149313752
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
204
Reduced-price lunch
26
Free or reduced-price lunch
23075.4% of enrollment.
Direct certification
172Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Middle schools elsewhere in Oakland

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.