It use to be open enrollment in Oakland when I was a kid they must of changed it. You should hook up with someone with an Alameda address I use to live in Jingle Town and went to Encinel cuz we used my aunts friends address.
My kids already go to daycare in Alameda and I would love to get them in the Alameda school district. We have a few people willing to let us use their address but I hear they've really cracked down on that. They investigate way more than they used to. I hear there'a raffle, but you might end up with your kids going to diffrent schools (I have 3 so that would be all bad). I faked my address all through the latter part of grade school so I could attend good schools in Walnut Creek. I still ended up falling in with the wrong crowd and becoming a drug addict college dropout anyway lol