Betty Reid Soskin Middle

Betty Reid Soskin Middle is one of the modestly sized junior highs in El Sobrante, California, run under West Contra Costa Unified, with 372 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Betty Reid Soskin Middle sits 44% below that benchmark.

West Contra Costa Unified comprises 52 schools with combined enrollment of 25,133 students; Betty Reid Soskin Middle is among them.

On demographics, Betty Reid Soskin Middle lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 48%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 20% Asian, 17% Black, 6% multiracial, 6% White. By comparison, Contra Costa County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Betty Reid Soskin Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 55% of students at Betty Reid Soskin Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Contra Costa County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Betty Reid Soskin Middle is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 46.5%; Betty Reid Soskin Middle posts 15.6%, -30.9 points below that line.

Around the school, Contra Costa County reports that median household earnings sit near $127,229, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Contra Costa County's 280 public schools (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students), Betty Reid Soskin Middle is one campus in the mix.

Tara Hills Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Betty Reid Soskin Middle. On composite proficiency, Betty Reid Soskin Middle comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 33.0%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Betty Reid Soskin Middle's enrollment has decreased 22% since 2018, when it stood at 475 (now 372). Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 21% to 17%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 24.2:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 in 2025.

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