Fairmont Elementary

Located at 724 Kearney St., in El Cerrito, California, Fairmont Elementary is a mid-tier elementary-level community that serves 537 students (grades K through 6), overseen by West Contra Costa Unified.

Within West Contra Costa Unified, which oversees 52 schools and 25,133 students, Fairmont Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Fairmont Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 34%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 28% Asian, 20% White, 12% multiracial, 6% Black.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Fairmont Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 53% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Fairmont Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.9%, the actual is 50.1%, a residual of +2.3 points.

Across the wider county, Contra Costa County reports that 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), Fairmont Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Invictus Academy of Richmond, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fairmont Elementary. On composite proficiency, Fairmont Elementary comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 56.9%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Fairmont Elementary's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 540 (now 537). The Black share of enrollment declined from 10% to 6% over that span.

On the community side, members of the Fairmont 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.