In March of 2005, Harvard researchers released a report revealing that the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) graduates under 50% of incoming freshmen on time. In stark contrast, OSA maintains a graduation rate of nearly 100% and a college admissions rate exceeding 95%. OSA’s most recent Academic Performance Index (API) score, reported by the CA Department of Education is 756. By comparison the OUSD score is 693. OSA was the only Oakland School to win the 2009 California Distinguished School Award from the CA Department of Education.