Schools · Oakland

Oakland, PA schools

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Oakland’s School Grade: C+

The public schools Oakland’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 60% of Pennsylvania’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.

CTest scoresA-Graduation
Pennsylvania school districts we grade (683)Better than 40%
Lower resultsHigher results
Pennsylvania towns with similar household incomes (2,029)Better than 22%
Towns in Venango County (20)Better than 15%
High confidence. Built on 954 tested students and a graduating class of 148; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
  • Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Pennsylvania’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
  • The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
  • Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Pennsylvania only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
  • Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Pennsylvania with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
  • What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Test scores · 2020–21

State test results

Math (Oil City Area)20%
State average 37.1%
Graduation · class of 2020

97% graduate on time

Graduation rate
97%
PA: 87.5%
Graduating class
148
students

The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #931 of 1,035 PA towns →

Districts

The district serving Oakland

Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.

Within reach

Colleges near Oakland

There’s no college in Oakland, but 3 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is University of Pittsburgh-Titusville in Titusville, 10.4 miles away.

Straight-line distance from the center of Oakland. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.

We don’t have any schools located in Oakland yet.

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