Elementary Schoolage Children

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Elementary School-age Children

• Academic achievement gap

• Hills vs. Flats
• Special Education
• After School Programs
• Safe and enriching spaces
• Health and fitness

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Children Population and Poverty, Oakland,
2006Source Alameda County, Early Care and
Education for All, Needs Assessment Report, June
2006
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Uneven Truancy Experiences
Blue Elementary Schools Red Middle
Schools Yellow High Schools

• Concentrated in East and West Oakland
• Truancy highest at charter schools

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High Truancy Schools

• Middle Schools
• Oakland Community Day Middle
• West Oakland Middle School
• Explore College Prep Middle
• Frick Middle School
• Bret Harte Middle School
• High Schools
• Bunche Continuation High School
• Business Information Technical
• Business Entrepreneurial Tech H.S.
• Leadership Preparatory H.S.
• Youth Empowerment School (YES)

• Elementary Schools
• Parker Elementary
• Piedmont Elementary
• Horace Mann Elementary
• Markham Elementary
• Lincoln Elementary
• RISE Community School
• East Oakland Pride Elementary
• REACH Academy
• Webster Academy
• Garfield Elementary
• Global Family School
• Howard Elementary

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Schools with Low API scores

• Blue Elementary Schools
• Red Middle Schools
• Yellow High Schools

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Low API Schools

• Elementary Schools
• East Oakland Pride Elementary
• Education for Change at Cox Elementary
• EnCompass Academy
• Esperanza Elementary
• Fred T. Korematsu Discovery Academy
• Global Family School
• Hoover Elementary
• Jefferson Elementary
• Lafayette Elementary
• Lazear Elementary
• Learning Without Limits
• Lockwood Elementary
• Manzanita Community School
• Manzanita SEED
• Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary
• Maxwell Park Elementary
• New Highland Academy

• Elementary Schools Contd
• Preparatory Literary Academy
• Reach Academy
• RISE Community School
• Santa Fe Elementary
• Webster Academy
• Whittier Elementary
• Middle Schools
• Claremont Middle
• Cole Middle
• Coliseum College Prep Academy
• Frick Middle School
• Peralta Creek Middle School
• High Schools
• Business, Entrepreneurial School of
• Technology
• East Oakland School of the Arts

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After School ProgrammingSource Oakland
SUCCESS! After School Programs Evaluation Report,
2007-2008

• More than 20 million spent on ASPs annually
• 1/3 of public school students served
• 1/3 of after-school program participants
  classified as English Learners
• 7 have learning disability

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Attitudes Toward After-School ProgramsSource
California Healthy Kids Survey, OUSD Fall 2007
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After School ProgrammingSource Oakland
SUCCESS! After School Programs Evaluation Report,
2007-2008

• Enrollment
• Elementary Schools- 119 of target
• Middle Schools- 109 of target
• High Schools- 31 of target
• Attendance
• Elementary Schools- 80 of days enrolled
• Middle Schools- 68 of days enrolled
• High Schools- 49 of days enrolled

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Health and Fitness Implications

• Obesity rates are highest in Oakland
• Parents seek
• Safe places for kids to play
• Affordable recreation
• Parents Requested
• After school programs
• Parks and Recreation

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Nutrition Implications

• Less Likely to have eaten
• East Oakland
• Flatlands

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OUSD Physical Fitness Results Source
California Department of Education
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Asthma RatesSource Alameda County Public Health
Department, Oakland/Berkeley Community Action to
Fight Asthma (OB-CAFA) report.
Data on ED visits reflect only those that were
treated and released.
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Social/Emotional Development

• OUSD Classroom programs
• Second Steps Anger management / violence
  Prevention
• OUSD Special Education
• 129 referrals district-wide
• Limited Behavioral Health Resources
• Elementary Middle Schools 528,015
• (for mental health consultations County-wide)

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Half of births in Alameda County to foreign-born
mothers

• Source Alameda County Public Health Department,
  Maternal, Paternal, Adolescent and Child Health

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Violent Crime Rates Higher in Oakland

• Source Alameda County Public Health Department
  Source Alameda County Public Health Department,
  2005

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Additional Community Input- Elementary School-age
Children

• Better curriculum collaboration between schools
  and after-school programs
• Addressing cognitive and emotional disabilities
• Safe, affordable, engaging places for children
  after-school and during the summer