Montera Middle School, located at 5555 Ascot Drive in the Montclair area of Oakland, CA 94611, serves students in grades 6–8. Enrollment is about 659 students with a student–teacher ratio near 18:1. The balance of genders tilts slightly male, around 53% male and 47% female. Based on the most recent statewide reporting, about 28% of students are proficient in math, and roughly 41% are proficient in reading, according to public accountability data. The campus is a neighborhood public middle school in the Oakland Unified School District that offers a comprehensive core curriculum and a mix of electives typical for its middle grade span. Students assigned to Montera Middle come from contiguous attendance zones that draw from the surrounding Montclair foothills and adjacent Oakland neighborhoods, giving families a predictable progression from elementary into grades 6–8. Housing in the area near the campus typically lists around $900,000, figures many local families consider when coordinating where they live with school boundaries and nearby services. As one of the middle schools in California, this campus’s defined assignment pattern and placement in eastern Oakland’s residential corridor contribute to how it appears in broader regional contexts without implying comparative performance rankings.