Fred T. Korematsu Middle

Fred T. Korematsu Middle is one of the mid-sized middle schools in El Cerrito, California, part of West Contra Costa Unified, with 708 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 8.

Within West Contra Costa Unified, which oversees 52 schools and 25,133 students, Fred T. Korematsu Middle is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Fred T. Korematsu Middle logs that 32% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 27% White, 18% Asian, 12% Black, 11% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Around 39% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fred T. Korematsu Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.5%, the actual is 43.7%, a residual of -12.8 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Contra Costa County put the typical household earns roughly $127,229 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Fred T. Korematsu Middle is one of 280 public schools in Contra Costa County (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students).

Nearest neighbor: Invictus Academy of Richmond, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fred T. Korematsu Middle ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 43.3%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fred T. Korematsu Middle has changed only slightly, going from 715 students in 2018 to 708 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 16% to 12% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 22.0:1 in 2018 to 23.7:1 in 2025.

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