El Monte Elementary

As a mid-sized elementary campus in Concord, California, El Monte Elementary hosts 418 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Mt. Diablo Unified.

Mt. Diablo Unified runs 50 schools in total, collectively educating 29,210 students. El Monte Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, El Monte Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 19% White, 16% multiracial, 13% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Contra Costa County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting El Monte Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 65% of students at El Monte Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Contra Costa County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), El Monte Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.0%, the actual is 27.9%, a residual of -13.2 points.

In the area at large, census data for Contra Costa County shows median household earnings sit near $127,229, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Contra Costa County's 280 public schools (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students), El Monte Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Wren Avenue Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, El Monte Elementary comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 27.9%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. El Monte Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 3% since 2018, when it stood at 432 (now 418). White enrollment moved from 25% to 19% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 22.1:1 in 2018 to 23.2:1 today.

On the community side, members of the El Monte Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.