Heights Elementary

Located at 163 Alturas Ave., in Pittsburg, California, Heights Elementary is a reasonably sized K-5 school that caters to 547 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Pittsburg Unified.

Pittsburg Unified runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 10,633 students. Heights Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Heights Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 72% of enrollment. Other groups include 10% Black, 8% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Heights Elementary has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.8:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 83% of students at Heights Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Contra Costa County's rate of about 45%.

With demographic context factored in, Heights Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 29.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.5%.

In the broader community, the surrounding 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 roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Contra Costa County's 280 public schools (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students), Heights Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Hillview Junior High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 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), Heights Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 21.2%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Heights Elementary's enrollment has declined 16% since 2018, when it stood at 655 (now 547).

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