El Dorado Middle

El Dorado Middle, an average-sized intermediate school in Concord, California, one of the schools within Mt. Diablo Unified, teaches 861 students, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts it 31% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

El Dorado Middle is one of 50 schools operated by Mt. Diablo Unified, a district that teaches 29,210 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, El Dorado Middle shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 57% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 16% White, 11% Asian, 11% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 23.5:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Contra Costa County (around 45%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, El Dorado Middle falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 34.6%; this one comes in at 16.8%, -17.8 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Contra Costa County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $127,229 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Contra Costa County runs 280 public schools (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students), of which El Dorado Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Westwood Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around El Dorado Middle. On composite proficiency, El Dorado Middle comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 35.9%.

El Dorado Middle operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. El Dorado Middle's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 883 (now 861). White enrollment moved from 23% to 16% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 21.0:1 in 2018 to 23.5:1 today.

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