About Ascend District
Ascend District is a public school system serving Alameda County, California, based in Oakland. It serves 493 students across 1 schools spanning K–8, and is classified as a city: large district. By enrollment it is the #996 largest of California’s 1976 school systems.
Size and structure
Ascend District enrolls 493 students in 1 schools — an average of about 493 students per school. It serves grades K–8 and ranks #996 of 1976 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Ascend District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (493 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Ascend District employs about 23 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 21.6:1 — below the California average of about 21.7:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 56.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How California funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Ascend District are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
California reports school and district performance on the California School Dashboard, which rates indicators from red to blue across academic performance in English and math, chronic absenteeism, graduation rate, suspension rate, English-learner progress and college-and-career readiness. Look up Ascend District on the California School Dashboard.
Accreditation status
In California, most schools that seek K–12 accreditation use ACS WASC (the Accrediting Commission for Schools, Western Association of Schools and Colleges) rather than Cognia. Search Ascend District’s schools in the ACS WASC directory.
Ascend District vs. California
See every California district side by side in the California directory.
Look up Ascend District’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):