Hidden Valley Elementary

Hidden Valley Elementary operates as a heavily attended elementary-level community in Martinez, California, one of the schools within Mt. Diablo Unified. Current enrollment sits at 831 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Hidden Valley Elementary sits 79% larger than that benchmark.

Within Mt. Diablo Unified, which oversees 50 schools and 29,210 students, Hidden Valley Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Hidden Valley Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 33% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 11% Asian, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Hidden Valley Elementary has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 26.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hidden Valley Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 50.2%.

Across the wider county, Contra Costa County reports that the typical household earns roughly $127,229 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Contra Costa County runs 280 public schools (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students), of which Hidden Valley Elementary is one.

Mt. McKinley is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Hidden Valley Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.7%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Hidden Valley Elementary's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 842 (now 831). The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 23.5:1 in 2018 to 26.6:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for Hidden Valley Elementary typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.