Mt. Diablo High

Mt. Diablo High is a four-year high school of sprawling scale in Concord, California, one of the schools within Mt. Diablo Unified, enrolling 1,397 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 67% above the state mean of about 838.

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

On the student-mix side, Mt. Diablo High lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 74%. The remainder consists of 8% Black, 8% Asian, 5% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 71 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 19.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.2:1 average. An estimated 80% of students are eligible 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 noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Mt. Diablo High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.8%; this one delivers 21.2%.

Around the school, census data for Contra Costa County shows median household earnings sit near $127,229, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Contra Costa County runs 280 public schools (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students), of which Mt. Diablo High is one.

Olympic High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mt. Diablo High. On composite proficiency, Mt. Diablo High comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 21.6%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Mt. Diablo High's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 1,392 (now 1,397). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 66% to 74%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 21.5:1 in 2018 to 19.8:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.