Enrollment
311
Elementary
DISTRICT 397 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST CONTRA COSTA UNIFIED·NCES 063255005014
Collins Elementary
1224 Pinole Valley Rd., Pinole, CA 94564 · (510) 231-1446 · Contra Costa County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL311 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
18.3:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
50%
157 students
DISTRICT 66% · 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 | 75 | 24% |
| Grade 1 | 41 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 42 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 45 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 37 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 36 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 35 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is 114% larger than its 6th grade class (35).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
33.3%
CA avg 49.1% . -4.7pp since 2014
Math
32.8%
CA avg 37.7% . +3.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 10.4% | 23.0% | 29.6% | 37.0% |
| Math | 9.0% | 23.9% | 25.4% | 41.8% |
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 | 33.3% | 32.8% |
| 2023-24 | 31.9% | 29.8% |
| 2022-23 | 26.5% | 23.3% |
| 2021-22 | 35.1% | 20.6% |
| 2018-19 | 37.4% | 33.7% |
| 2017-18 | 36.0% | 27.6% |
| 2016-17 | 35.9% | 29.1% |
| 2015-16 | 36.0% | 35.0% |
| 2014-15 | 38.0% | 29.0% |
% 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
31.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.0%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-18.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 50% 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 Collins Elementary
Collins Elementary's state test result (31.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collins Elementary this school | 311 | 50.5% | 31.5% |
| Madison Elementary Lakewood | 406 | 51.5% | 53.5% |
| Stewart Elementary Pinole | 379 | 48.8% | 39.4% |
| San Francisco Community Alternative San Francisco | 230 | 50.0% | 38.1% |
| Matsuyama Elementary Sacramento | 435 | 43.7% | 59.1% |
| Pony Express Elementary Sacramento | 360 | 54.7% | 46.5% |
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 Collins Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Contra Costa County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.5% | #3,327 of 5,151 | #93 of 149 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.8% | #2,934 of 5,172 ▲ 169 | #87 of 153 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.3% | #3,632 of 5,172 ▼ 54 | #104 of 153 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.2pp | #1,599 of 5,116 | #30 of 150 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 311 | #4,677 of 5,915 | #153 of 164 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.3:1 | #331 of 5,352 | #2 of 162 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.0% | #524 of 5,354 | #41 of 162 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 50.5% | #3,883 of 5,625 | #77 of 158 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.3% | #3,164 of 3,837 | #83 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
311
-8 (-3%) vs 2020
-55% since 1990-91, when it was 689
Student : Teacher
18.3:1
was 22.8:1
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 | 311 | 17 | 18.3:1 | 50% (157) |
| 2023-24 | 303 | 15 | 20.2:1 | 51% (154) |
| 2022-23 | 317 | 18 | 17.6:1 | 48% (152) |
| 2020-21 | 319 | 14 | 22.8:1 | 57% (182) |
| 2017-18 | 332 | 15 | 22.1:1 | 62% (206) |
| 2015-16 | 359 | 16 | 22.4:1 | 57% (205) |
| 2010-11 | 448 | N/A | N/A | 50% (225) |
| 2000-01 | 501 | 25 | 20.0:1 | 28% (142) |
| 1990-91 | 689 | 26 | 26.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Collins Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (332 to 311); teachers up 13% (15 to 17).
About Collins Elementary
Federal records list Collins Elementary as an elementary school in Pinole, California. The school runs kindergarten through 6 and enrolls 311 students. By comparison, elementary schools in California enroll about 465 students on average.
West Contra Costa Unified is the local district for Collins Elementary. It runs 52 schools with 25,133 students.
The biggest share of students at Collins Elementary, 45%, is Hispanic. The next largest groups are 22% Asian, 14% Black, 10% White, and 9% multiracial. In Contra Costa County overall, about 28% of residents are Hispanic. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 71%.
Teacher count: 17 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 18.3:1. The average for elementary schools in California, 22.3:1, is higher. Roughly 50% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
After accounting for student poverty, Collins Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results of 31.5% is 18.4 points below the 50.0% predicted for its lunch-eligibility share.
Contra Costa County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $127,229 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 45% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 6%. Collins Elementary shares Contra Costa County with 279 other public schools.
Pinole Valley High is about 0.7 miles from Collins Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, Collins Elementary ranks 6th on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 3% drop, from 319 to 311. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 22.8:1 in 2020-21 to 18.3:1 in 2024-25.
Collins Elementary has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
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
Related schools
Other schools in West Contra Costa Unified
- El Cerrito HighHigh · 1,460 students
- Richmond HighHigh · 1,280 students
- Pinole Valley HighHigh · 1,245 students
- De Anza HighHigh · 1,047 students
- Hercules HighHigh · 767 students
- John F. Kennedy HighHigh · 740 students
Other schools in Pinole
- Pinole Valley HighHigh · 1,245 students
- West County MandarinElementary · 528 students
- Pinole MiddleMiddle · 381 students
- Stewart ElementaryElementary · 379 students
- Shannon ElementaryElementary · 355 students
- Ellerhorst ElementaryElementary · 319 students
Other Collins Elementary schools
8 other US public schools in 8 states are named Collins Elementary. Collins Elementary is the 8th largest of the 9.
- Collins Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 788 students
- Collins Elementary SchoolHOUGHTON LAKE, MI · 489 students
- Collins Elementary SchoolCOLLINS, MS · 474 students
- Collins ElementaryTacoma, WA · 466 students
- Collins Elementary SchoolLIVINGSTON, NJ · 440 students
Nearby schools
- Pinole Valley High0.7 mi · 1,245
- Stewart Elementary0.8 mi · 379
- West County Mandarin0.9 mi · 528
- Pinole Middle0.9 mi · 381
- Ohlone Elementary1.0 mi · 482
- Shannon Elementary1.3 mi · 355
Frequently asked questions
About Collins ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Collins Elementary?
Collins Elementary enrolls approximately 311 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Collins Elementary serve?
Collins Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Collins Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Collins Elementary is approximately 18.3:1 (17 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Collins Elementary?
Collins Elementary reports a student body of 10% White, 45% Hispanic, 14% Black, 22% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Collins Elementary in?
Collins Elementary is part of West Contra Costa Unified.
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