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Celebrating Our Progress: A Mid-Year Update from the Superintendent

Our dedicated community of helpers—staff, families, and partners—are driving our students toward success and a brighter future.

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School Board Approves 3-Year Academic Calendar

At the January 22 Board meeting the OUSD Directors approved an agreement between district leadership and the teachers' union to establish the official academic calendar for the 2025-26, 2026-27, and 2027-28 school year. The first day of school for the 2025-26 school year will be August 11, 2025. 

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OUSD is a Sanctuary District! 

Oakland Unified stands in solidarity with the immigrant community and remains committed to providing safe and secure learning communities for all children, regardless of race, ethnicity, or immigration status. We take seriously our identify as a sanctuary district and in these turbulent times seek to reassure the community of ongoing focus on student care and safety.

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We care about our community.

For lead testing please contact your primary care provider or your local medical clinic. Please see this California Department of Public Health website for additional resources.

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Focused on high academic achievement while serving the whole child, eliminating inequity, and providing each child with excellent teachers, every day.

EXPLORE OUR FOUR PILLARS

Ensuring Strong Readers by the Third Grade

Accelerating Citywide Efforts to Guarantee Literacy for all Third Graders

Supporting Empowered Graduates

Developing Essential Skills to Secure Post-Secondary Success

Creating Joyful Schools

Reimagining Schools to be Places of Joy, Inclusion, and Beauty

Growing a Diverse and Stable Staff

Attracting and Retaining Staff Reflective of Oakland’s Rich Diversity

EXPLORE OUR FOUR PILLARS

Ensuring Strong Readers by the Third Grade

Accelerating Citywide Efforts to Guarantee Literacy for all Third Graders

Ensuring Strong Readers by the Third Grade

Oakland’s vision is that its youngest students develop a joyful curiosity and a love of reading, writing and self-expression.

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Supporting Empowered Graduates

Developing Essential Skills to Secure Post-Secondary Success

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Supporting Empowered Graduates

Oakland’s vision of powerful graduates is one in which students are empowered with skills, knowledge, and opportunities, along with having a clear vision for themselves.

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Creating Joyful Schools

Reimagining Schools to be Places of Joy, Inclusion, and Beauty

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Creating Joyful Schools

In Oakland’s vision, students feel safe, welcomed, and liberated in their daily environments — at home, in school, and in the community — and are active participants in their academic and social emotional success.

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Growing a Diverse and Stable Staff

Attracting and Retaining Staff Reflective of Oakland’s Rich Diversity

Growing a Diverse and Stable Staff

Oakland’s vision is that our students’ diverse and rich backgrounds are reflected by Black, Brown, and multilingual educators.

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Grow With Us

Learning is growing, and every student deserves a safe, joyful environment that equips them to be lifelong learners and leaders.

OUSD offers music, language, hands-on learning and STEAM opportunities for preschoolers to seniors in high school. Our 77 K-12 schools are located in the country's second most racially diverse city and are spread across 78 square miles. We prepare students to be engaged civic leaders ready to pursue their college, career and post-K-12 educational dreams.

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OUSD Celebrates Year of the Snake with Joyful Lunar New Year Celebrations

Happy Lunar New Year! Lunar New Year is a time-honored tradition celebrated by diverse cultures across Asia that marks the beginning of a new lunar cycle filled with hope, renewal, and cultural pride. 2025 is the Year of the Snake. This Lunar New Year, the snake is expected to bring about transformation and new beginnings.

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