Grant Elementary

Grant Elementary is an elementary-level community of average-sized scale in Antioch, California, overseen by Antioch Unified, works with 478 students in grades K through 6.

Within Antioch Unified, which oversees 25 schools and 15,111 students, Grant Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Grant Elementary lists that 45% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 26% Black, 14% Asian, 8% multiracial, 7% White. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 77% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Contra Costa County's rate of about 45%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Grant Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.4%, the actual is 20.2%, a residual of -13.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Contra Costa County) reports that median household earnings sit near $127,229, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across Contra Costa County's 280 public schools (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students), Grant Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Jack London Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Grant Elementary at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 23.7%.

Grant Elementary operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Grant Elementary has edged down 3%, going from 494 students in 2018 to 478 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 39% to 45% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 19.6:1 today.

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