Mountain View Elementary

Mountain View Elementary is one of the modestly sized K-5 schools in Concord, California, overseen by Mt. Diablo Unified, with 267 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 43% below the state mean of about 465.

Mt. Diablo Unified runs 50 schools in total, collectively educating 29,210 students. Mountain View Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Mountain View Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 28% White, 14% multiracial, 10% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Contra Costa County as a whole is about 28% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 24.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Mountain View Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 56% 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 above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mountain View Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.0%; this one delivers 39.5%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Contra Costa County put 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), Mountain View Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Silverwood Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mountain View Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mountain View Elementary at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 33.3%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Mountain View Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 32% since 2018, when it stood at 391 (now 267). Over the same period, the White share fell from 35% to 28%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 24.3:1 today.

Inside the community feed, members of the Mountain View Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.