Montevideo Elementary

Montevideo Elementary is one of the moderately sized elementary-level communitys in San Ramon, California, part of San Ramon Valley Unified, with 592 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 27% larger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Montevideo Elementary is one of 36 schools operated by San Ramon Valley Unified, a district that hosts 28,554 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Montevideo Elementary lists that the largest single group is Asian, at 58% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 21% White, 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Contra Costa County as a whole is about 19% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.4:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 10% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Contra Costa County (around 45%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Montevideo Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.5%, the actual is 72.7%, a residual of -0.7 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Contra Costa County indicate 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. Montevideo Elementary is one of 280 public schools in Contra Costa County (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students).

California High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Montevideo Elementary. On composite proficiency, Montevideo Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 72.9%.

Montevideo Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 9%: 653 students in 2018 compared to 592 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged down from 14% to 9%. Class-load math has fell: from 25.1:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 in 2025.

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