Eagle Peak Montessori

Eagle Peak Montessori, a close-knit primary school in Walnut Creek, California, overseen by Mt. Diablo Unified, enrolls 301 students, covering grades 1 through 8. That puts it 35% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Mt. Diablo Unified comprises 50 schools with combined enrollment of 29,210 students; Eagle Peak Montessori is among them.

On the student-mix side, Eagle Peak Montessori logs that the most-represented group is White (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 23% multiracial, 22% Hispanic, 20% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, Eagle Peak Montessori records 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 30.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 8% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Contra Costa County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Eagle Peak Montessori is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 75.0%; Eagle Peak Montessori posts 60.1%, -14.9 points below that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Contra Costa County shows median household income runs about $127,229, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Contra Costa County's 280 public schools (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students), Eagle Peak Montessori is one campus in the mix.

Northgate High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Eagle Peak Montessori comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 62.7%.

Eagle Peak Montessori operates from an urban location. Eagle Peak Montessori operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Eagle Peak Montessori has climbed 23%, going from 244 students in 2018 to 301 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 50% to 34% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 30.1:1 in 2025.

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