Coronado Elementary

As a compact primary school in Richmond, California, Coronado Elementary hosts 307 students from grades K through 6, one of the schools within West Contra Costa Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Coronado Elementary sits 34% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 52 schools in West Contra Costa Unified (25,133 students total), Coronado Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Coronado Elementary records that 74% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 16% Black, 5% multiracial, 3% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the resource side, On paper, Coronado Elementary has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Coronado Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 63% of students at Coronado Elementary qualify 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 meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Coronado Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 41.9%; actual is 6.5%, a gap of -35.3 points.

In the area at large, census data for Contra Costa County shows median household earnings sit near $127,229, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Coronado Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Richmond College Preparatory, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Coronado Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 10.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Coronado Elementary has edged down 30%, going from 437 students in 2018 to 307 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 26% to 16% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 29.1:1 in 2018 to 20.5:1 today.

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