Royal Oak Middle School is the only middle school in the Charter Oak Unified School District and is located in the City of Covina, California, in the San Gabriel Valley, east of Los Angeles.

Royal Oak was a 1996 California Distinguished School[1] Royal Oak Middle School opened in 1985 on the site of the former Royal Oak High School, which opened in 1965.

Originally, the middle school served students in sixth through eighth grades.

In 2007, the mission of the school changed to serve only seventh- and eighth-grade students.

The majority of students are Hispanic, with a large white minority and smaller minorities of African Americans and Asian Americans.