Parkside Elementary

Parkside Elementary is an elementary-level community of average-sized scale in Pittsburg, California, part of Pittsburg Unified, educateing 565 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 22% larger than the state mean of about 465.

Within Pittsburg Unified, which oversees 13 schools and 10,633 students, Parkside Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Parkside Elementary shows that 71% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest reads as 13% Black, 8% Asian, 3% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 20.9:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 84% of students at Parkside Elementary qualify 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 meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Parkside Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 29.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 19.1%.

Zooming out to the county, Contra Costa County reports that median household earnings sit near $127,229, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Contra Costa County runs 280 public schools (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students), of which Parkside Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Los Medanos Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Parkside Elementary. On composite proficiency, Parkside Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 24.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 13%: 649 students in 2018 compared to 565 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 23.2:1 in 2018 to 20.9:1 in 2025.

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