Fair Oaks Elementary

Located at 2400 Lisa Ln., in Pleasant Hill, California, Fair Oaks Elementary is a cozy K-5 school that teaches 323 students (grades K through 5), operated by Mt. Diablo Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Fair Oaks Elementary sits 31% leaner than that benchmark.

Fair Oaks Elementary is one of 50 schools operated by Mt. Diablo Unified, a district that teaches 29,210 students overall.

On demographics, Fair Oaks Elementary records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 18% White, 17% Asian, 13% multiracial, 8% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the resource side, Fair Oaks Elementary reports 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Fair Oaks Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 85% of students are eligible 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fair Oaks Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.5%, the actual is 15.8%, a residual of -13.7 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Contra Costa County put the typical household earns roughly $127,229 per year, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Fair Oaks Elementary is one.

Cambridge Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Fair Oaks Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.8%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 5%: 341 students in 2018 compared to 323 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment decreased from 57% to 44% over that span.

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