Belshaw Elementary

Belshaw Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Antioch, California, run under Antioch Unified. The school works with 431 students in grades K through 5.

Within Antioch Unified, which oversees 25 schools and 15,111 students, Belshaw Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Belshaw Elementary logs that 60% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 17% Black, 13% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Contra Costa County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Belshaw Elementary reports 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.7:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Contra Costa County (around 45%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Belshaw Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 29.9%; Belshaw Elementary posts 14.6%, -15.3 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Contra Costa County) shows 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 Belshaw Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Bidwell Continuation High, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Belshaw Elementary. On composite proficiency, Belshaw Elementary comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 14.6%.

Belshaw Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 23%: 558 students in 2018 compared to 431 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 49% to 60%. Class-load math has fell: from 26.6:1 in 2018 to 22.7:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.