Peres Elementary

Peres Elementary is one of the mid-sized primary schools in Richmond, California, run under West Contra Costa Unified, with 538 students on its rolls from grades K through 8.

West Contra Costa Unified comprises 52 schools with combined enrollment of 25,133 students; Peres Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Peres Elementary shows that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 13% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 21.0:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 95% of students at Peres Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Contra Costa County's rate of about 45%.

With demographic context factored in, Peres Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 22.9%, the actual is 9.2%, a residual of -13.8 points.

In the broader community, census data for Contra Costa County shows 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%. In all, Contra Costa County runs 280 public schools (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students), of which Peres Elementary is one.

Leadership Public Schools: Richmond is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Peres Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 10.8%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 540 students in 2018 compared to 538 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 78% to 83% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 27.0:1 in 2018 to 21.0:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.