Oakland’s 2010-11 enrollment breakdown
By Katy Murphy
Saturday, June 4th, 2011 at 10:52 am in buildings, enrollment.
The California Department of Education recently posted 2010-11 enrollment data. At least one of you has asked how many schools have fewer than 200 children, so I put together a spreadsheet with the latest numbers for Oakland.
Tab 1 is sorted by total enrollment, with charter schools highlighted in blue. Tab 2 is sorted by school. You’ll see that of the 31 public schools or programs in Oakland with enrollments below 200, all but six or seven are alternative schools or charters, and one of those (Youth Empowerment School) is already slated to close.
Want to go straight to the source? Here is the link to the page from where I downloaded the data.
Oakland school enrollment 2010-11 –
Cutting school, with dire consequences
By Katy Murphy
Friday, June 3rd, 2011 at 5:38 pm in crime, high schools, students, violence
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I’m supposed to be an education reporter, not a crime reporter, but lately there hasn’t been much of a distinction.
Today I reported on a tragedy that unfolded at a market near Youth Empowerment School in the East Oakland hills — which, according to the school principal, is about to close (not merge into the Castlemont campus, as originally planned).
On Tuesday morning, a 14-year-old YES freshman cut school and, police said, got into a violent struggle with the 57-year-old owner of Oak Knoll Market over bottles of vodka he was trying to steal. When the boy fled, the owner followed in his car; he hadn’t driven a block before he fell unconscious and died, possibly of a heart attack.