Enrollment
328
Elementary
DISTRICT 480 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MT. DIABLO UNIFIED·NCES 062637003936
Bel Air Elementary
663 Canal Rd., Bay Point, CA 94565 · (925) 458-2606 · Contra Costa County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL328 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
27.3:1
12 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 25.3:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
266 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 59 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 44 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 55 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 59 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (60).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
15.3%
CA avg 49.1% . +7.3pp since 2014
Math
13.5%
CA avg 37.7% . +5.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 15 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 6 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 3.1% | 12.3% | 20.9% | 63.8% |
| Math | 3.1% | 10.4% | 23.9% | 62.6% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 15.3% | 13.5% |
| 2023-24 | 11.4% | 12.5% |
| 2022-23 | 12.3% | 12.8% |
| 2021-22 | 11.2% | 7.2% |
| 2020-21 | 9.1% | 7.7% |
| 2018-19 | 17.2% | 10.8% |
| 2017-18 | 14.6% | 7.0% |
| 2016-17 | 13.4% | 9.1% |
| 2015-16 | 10.0% | 10.0% |
| 2014-15 | 8.0% | 8.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
13.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
32.0%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 13% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 32% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Bel Air Elementary
Bel Air Elementary's state test result (13.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bel Air Elementary this school | 328 | 81.1% | 13.1% |
| Ernie Pyle Elementary Bellflower | 341 | 80.9% | 39.6% |
| Rancho Elementary Spring Valley | 324 | 83.3% | 22.0% |
| Lucille J. Smith Elementary Lawndale | 331 | 84.3% | 49.3% |
| Michael D'Arcy Elementary Fontana | 336 | 78.3% | 28.1% |
| Aspire Rosa Parks Academy Stockton | 403 | 80.9% | N/A |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Bel Air Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Contra Costa County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 13.1% | #5,027 of 5,151 | #134 of 149 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.5% | #4,868 of 5,172 ▲ 7 | #132 of 153 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 15.3% | #5,039 of 5,172 ▲ 76 | #134 of 153 ▲ 9 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.2pp | #1,595 of 5,116 | #29 of 150 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 328 | #4,497 of 5,915 | #146 of 164 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 27.3:1 | #5,169 of 5,352 | #147 of 162 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 51.1% | #2,686 of 5,354 | #128 of 162 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.1% | #2,078 of 5,625 | #28 of 158 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -32.0% | #430 of 3,837 | #9 of 107 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
328
-122 (-27%) vs 2020
-46% since 1990-91, when it was 605
Student : Teacher
27.3:1
was 30.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 328 | 12 | 27.3:1 | 81% (266) |
| 2023-24 | 349 | 11.5 | 30.4:1 | 85% (297) |
| 2022-23 | 360 | 11 | 32.7:1 | 63% (227) |
| 2020-21 | 450 | 15 | 30.0:1 | 77% (345) |
| 2017-18 | 482 | 21.4 | 22.5:1 | 94% (454) |
| 2015-16 | 556 | 19 | 29.3:1 | 94% (525) |
| 2010-11 | 451 | N/A | N/A | 86% (390) |
| 2000-01 | 730 | 33 | 22.1:1 | 58% (420) |
| 1990-91 | 605 | 25 | 24.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bel Air Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 32% (482 to 328); teachers down 44% (21.4 to 12).
About Bel Air Elementary
Bel Air Elementary is an elementary school located in Bay Point, California, in Contra Costa County. Students in kindergarten through 5 attend, and enrollment is 328 students. The school's enrollment is 29% smaller than the 465 average for elementary schools in California.
Mt. Diablo Unified enrolls 29,210 students, and its 50 schools include Bel Air Elementary.
At 68%, Hispanic students outnumber all other groups at Bel Air Elementary combined. Smaller groups are 12% Black, 7% multiracial, 7% Asian, and 4% White. County-wide, 28% of Contra Costa County residents are Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at Bel Air Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 51%.
The count of teachers at Bel Air Elementary is 12 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 27.3:1. Among elementary schools in California, the typical ratio is 22.3:1. The school counts 266 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 81%. That rate is above the 45% average among public schools in Contra Costa County.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 32.0% for Bel Air Elementary, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 13.1%. The 18.9-point gap ranks in the bottom 10% of California schools.
Contra Costa County has about 1,165,012 residents, and median household income is about $127,229, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 45% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Federal data list 280 public schools in Contra Costa County, with a combined enrollment of about 167,423.
The closest other public school is Willow Cove Elementary, about 0.7 miles away. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Bel Air Elementary ranks 8th on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around Bel Air Elementary as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count in 2024-25 was 328, 27% below the 450 of 2020-21. Students per teacher fell from 30.0 in 2020-21 to 27.3 in 2024-25.
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Contra Costa County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,165,012
Census ACS
Median income
$127,229
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
280
167,423 students
Quick facts
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- Foothill MiddleMiddle · 1,005 students
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- Riverview MiddleMiddle · 682 students
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Other Bel Air Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 7 states are named Bel Air Elementary. Bel Air Elementary is the 6th largest of the 8.
- Bel Air ElementaryNEW BRIGHTON, MN · 729 students
- Bel Air ElementaryBel Air, MD · 521 students
- Bel Air Elementary SchoolATHENS, TX · 465 students
- Bel Air ElementaryWoodbridge, VA · 391 students
- BEL AIR ELEMENTARY SCHOOLNORFOLK, NE · 333 students
Nearby schools
- Willow Cove Elementary0.7 mi · 592
- Rancho Medanos Junior High1.4 mi · 812
- Delta View Elementary1.7 mi · 656
- Riverview Middle1.8 mi · 682
- Los Medanos Elementary2.0 mi · 665
- Shore Acres Elementary2.0 mi · 398
Frequently asked questions
About Bel Air ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Bel Air Elementary?
Bel Air Elementary enrolls approximately 328 students in grades KG-05.
Is Bel Air Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Bel Air Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Bel Air Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bel Air Elementary is approximately 27.3:1 (12 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Bel Air Elementary?
At Bel Air Elementary, the student body is approximately 4% White, 68% Hispanic, 12% Black, 7% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Bel Air Elementary public or private?
Bel Air Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Mt. Diablo Unified.
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