Bayview Elementary

Bayview Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school in San Pablo, California, overseen by West Contra Costa Unified. The school educates 335 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Bayview Elementary sits 28% leaner than that benchmark.

West Contra Costa Unified comprises 52 schools with combined enrollment of 25,133 students; Bayview Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Bayview Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 59% of enrollment. Other groups include 21% Black, 10% Asian, 6% multiracial, 4% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

In terms of school funding signals, Bayview Elementary records 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Bayview Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 96% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Contra Costa County's rate of about 45%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bayview Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.2%; this one delivers 14.9%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Contra Costa County) records that median household income runs about $127,229, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Contra Costa County runs 280 public schools (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students), of which Bayview Elementary is one.

Lake Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bayview Elementary comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 24.0%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 37%: 529 students in 2018 compared to 335 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 27.8:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 today.

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