Mission Elementary

Located at 1711 Mission Dr., in Antioch, California, Mission Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school that educates 512 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Antioch Unified.

Antioch Unified runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 15,111 students. Mission Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Mission Elementary shows that 47% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 24% Black, 12% Asian, 8% White, 5% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 83% of students at Mission Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Contra Costa County's rate of about 45%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mission Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 30.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 18.0%.

Around the school, census data for Contra Costa County shows median household earnings sit near $127,229, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Contra Costa County runs 280 public schools (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students), of which Mission Elementary is one.

Antioch Charter Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mission Elementary comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 13.4%.

Mission Elementary operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mission Elementary has declined 21%, going from 645 students in 2018 to 512 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 7% to 12% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 26.9:1 in 2018 to 21.0:1 in 2025.

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