Kensington Elementary

Kensington Elementary operates as a mid-tier primary school in Kensington, California, operated by West Contra Costa Unified. Current enrollment sits at 473 students spanning grades K through 6.

West Contra Costa Unified comprises 52 schools with combined enrollment of 25,133 students; Kensington Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Kensington Elementary logs that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 20% multiracial, 15% Asian, 13% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 41% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Kensington Elementary has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 14% of students at Kensington Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Contra Costa County's rate of about 45%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kensington Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.1%, the actual is 79.4%, a residual of +8.3 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Contra Costa County put median household earnings sit near $127,229, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Kensington Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is El Cerrito High, roughly 1.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Kensington Elementary. On composite proficiency, Kensington Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 63.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Kensington Elementary's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 481 (now 473). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 61% to 50%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 26.7:1 in 2018 to 23.6:1 today.

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