Morello Park Elementary

Located at 1200 Morello Park Dr., in Martinez, California, Morello Park Elementary is a mid-sized elementary campus that educates 496 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Martinez Unified.

Across the 8 schools in Martinez Unified (3,774 students total), Morello Park Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Morello Park Elementary lists that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 19% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, 15% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 20% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Contra Costa County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Morello Park Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.4%, the actual is 65.5%, a residual of -1.9 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Contra Costa County indicate the typical household earns roughly $127,229 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Contra Costa County's 280 public schools (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students), Morello Park Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Las Juntas Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Morello Park Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Morello Park Elementary at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 45.5%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 3%: 509 students in 2018 compared to 496 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment increased from 8% to 15% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.2:1 in 2018 to 21.3:1 today.

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