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How has Meadow Homes Elementary changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
732
Elementary
DISTRICT 480 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MT. DIABLO UNIFIED·NCES 062637003956
Meadow Homes Elementary
1371 Detroit Ave., Concord, CA 94520 · (925) 685-8760 · Contra Costa County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL732 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
28.1:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 25.3:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
673 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 142 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 109 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 108 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 122 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 114 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 137 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (142) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (137).
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
13.8%
CA avg 49.1% . -13.2pp since 2014
Math
12.5%
CA avg 37.7% . -6.5pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 14 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 13 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 6 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 2.3% | 11.6% | 18.0% | 68.2% |
| Math | 2.5% | 10.1% | 26.4% | 61.0% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 13.8% | 12.5% |
| 2023-24 | 10.8% | 10.5% |
| 2022-23 | 16.9% | 17.4% |
| 2021-22 | 18.2% | 13.3% |
| 2020-21 | 12.1% | 10.3% |
| 2018-19 | 26.6% | 22.0% |
| 2017-18 | 28.5% | 21.7% |
| 2016-17 | 24.6% | 19.8% |
| 2015-16 | 27.0% | 21.0% |
| 2014-15 | 27.0% | 19.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
12.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 12% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Meadow Homes Elementary
Meadow Homes Elementary's state test result (12.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Meadow Homes Elementary this school | 732 | 91.9% | 12.0% |
| Centennial Elementary Fresno | 741 | 90.0% | 22.7% |
| North Elementary Tracy | 722 | 92.1% | 17.3% |
| Birney Elementary Fresno | 731 | 94.7% | 35.3% |
| Franklin Elementary Modesto | 777 | 94.0% | 23.4% |
| Farmdale Elementary Merced | 919 | 92.9% | 35.0% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Meadow Homes Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Contra Costa County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 12.0% | #5,060 of 5,151 | #137 of 149 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.5% | #4,919 of 5,172 ▲ 84 | #135 of 153 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 13.8% | #5,080 of 5,172 ▲ 41 | #141 of 153 ▲ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.6pp | #1,059 of 5,116 | #43 of 150 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 732 | #615 of 5,915 | #11 of 164 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 28.1:1 | #5,248 of 5,352 | #151 of 162 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.9% | #3,383 of 5,354 | #143 of 162 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.9% | #844 of 5,625 | #6 of 158 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.4% | #2,380 of 3,837 | #61 of 107 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
732
-25 (-3%) vs 2020
+4% since 1990-91, when it was 703
Student : Teacher
28.1:1
was 25.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 732 | 26 | 28.1:1 | 92% (673) |
| 2023-24 | 711 | 26 | 27.4:1 | 91% (650) |
| 2022-23 | 748 | 26 | 28.8:1 | 66% (495) |
| 2020-21 | 757 | 30 | 25.2:1 | 85% (643) |
| 2017-18 | 836 | 33.2 | 25.2:1 | 94% (785) |
| 2015-16 | 883 | 37 | 23.9:1 | 93% (818) |
| 2010-11 | 918 | N/A | N/A | 84% (774) |
| 2000-01 | 799 | 37 | 21.6:1 | 68% (547) |
| 1990-91 | 703 | 28 | 25.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Meadow Homes Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (836 to 732); teachers down 22% (33.2 to 26).
About Meadow Homes Elementary
At 1371 Detroit Ave. in Concord, California, Meadow Homes Elementary operates as a large elementary school. Federal data show 732 students enrolled in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in California average about 465 students, which makes this school 57% above average.
Mt. Diablo Unified has 29,210 students spread across 50 schools.
The share of Hispanic students at Meadow Homes Elementary is 76%, a majority. Smaller groups are 11% Asian, 5% multiracial, 4% White, and 3% Black. For comparison, the population of Contra Costa County is roughly 28% Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 41%.
The school's 26 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 28.1:1. Elementary schools in California have an average ratio of 22.3:1. At Meadow Homes Elementary, 92% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. On average, public schools in Contra Costa County report 45%.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Meadow Homes Elementary is 13.7 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 12.0% actual, 25.7% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in California.
The county, Contra Costa County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $127,229 a year, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Meadow Homes Elementary, Contra Costa County has 280 public schools.
Meadow Homes Elementary is about 0.9 miles from Cambridge Elementary, its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Meadow Homes Elementary ranks 6th of 7 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 12.0% against a local average of 24.8%.
For locale, NCES codes Meadow Homes Elementary as Suburb: Large.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 3% drop, from 757 to 732. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 25.2:1 in 2020-21 to 28.1:1 in 2024-25.
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Contra Costa County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,165,012
Census ACS
Median income
$127,229
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
280
167,423 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Mt. Diablo Unified
- College Park HighHigh · 1,948 students
- Northgate HighHigh · 1,546 students
- Mt. Diablo HighHigh · 1,397 students
- Concord HighHigh · 1,137 students
- Ygnacio Valley HighHigh · 1,059 students
- Foothill MiddleMiddle · 1,005 students
Other schools in Concord
- Clayton Valley Charter HighHigh · 2,373 students
- Mt. Diablo HighHigh · 1,397 students
- Concord HighHigh · 1,137 students
- Ygnacio Valley HighHigh · 1,059 students
- El Dorado MiddleMiddle · 861 students
- Oak Grove MiddleMiddle · 681 students
Nearby schools
- Cambridge Elementary0.9 mi · 469
- Crossroads High1.1 mi · 12
- Olympic High1.2 mi · 233
- Mt. Diablo High1.2 mi · 1,397
- Ygnacio Valley Elementary1.2 mi · 387
- El Monte Elementary1.4 mi · 418
Frequently asked questions
About Meadow Homes ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Meadow Homes Elementary?
Meadow Homes Elementary enrolls approximately 732 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Meadow Homes Elementary serve?
Meadow Homes Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Meadow Homes Elementary?
Approximately 28.1:1 students per teacher at Meadow Homes Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Meadow Homes Elementary?
Student demographics at Meadow Homes Elementary are roughly 4% White, 76% Hispanic, 3% Black, 11% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Meadow Homes Elementary public or private?
Meadow Homes Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Mt. Diablo Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.