Burton Valley Elementary

Burton Valley Elementary is a moderately sized elementary campus in Lafayette, California, run under Lafayette Elementary. The school instructs 653 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 40% above typical.

Lafayette Elementary runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,230 students. Burton Valley Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Burton Valley Elementary shows that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 27% multiracial, 12% Asian, 11% Hispanic. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 41%.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 2% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Contra Costa County (around 45%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Burton Valley Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 78.2%, the actual is 84.8%, a residual of +6.6 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Contra Costa County put the typical household earns roughly $127,229 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Burton Valley Elementary is one of 280 public schools in Contra Costa County (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students).

Lafayette Early Intervention Preschool is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Burton Valley Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 77.7%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Burton Valley Elementary's enrollment has edged down 19% since 2018, when it stood at 807 (now 653). White enrollment moved from 71% to 49% across the same window.

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