Highland Elementary

Located at 2829 Moyers Rd., in Richmond, California, Highland Elementary is a cozy primary school that educates 377 students (grades K through 6), run under West Contra Costa Unified.

Across the 52 schools in West Contra Costa Unified (25,133 students total), Highland Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Highland Elementary shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 63%; the rest comes out to 17% Asian, 13% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

Looking at school resources, Highland Elementary lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Highland Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Contra Costa County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Highland Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 37.3%; actual is 18.6%, a gap of -18.7 points.

Across the wider county, Contra Costa County reports that the typical household earns roughly $127,229 per year, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Highland Elementary is one of 280 public schools in Contra Costa County (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students).

Nearest neighbor: Vista Independent Study / Virtual Academy, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Highland Elementary comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 31.5%.

Highland Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 21%: 478 students in 2018 compared to 377 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 21% to 13%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 25.2:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 today.

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