Rio Vista Elementary

Rio Vista Elementary is a reasonably sized primary school in Bay Point, California, part of Mt. Diablo Unified. The school educates 431 students in grades K through 5.

Across the 50 schools in Mt. Diablo Unified (29,210 students total), Rio Vista Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rio Vista Elementary records that 74% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 8% Asian, 7% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Rio Vista Elementary lists 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.9:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Contra Costa County (around 45%), the school's rate is north of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Rio Vista Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.6%, the actual is 18.0%, a residual of -10.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Contra Costa County indicate the typical household earns roughly $127,229 per year, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Rio Vista Elementary is one of 280 public schools in Contra Costa County (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students).

Nearest neighbor: Shore Acres Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rio Vista Elementary. On composite proficiency, Rio Vista Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 22.6%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Rio Vista Elementary has contracted 17%, going from 521 students in 2018 to 431 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share fell from 80% to 74%.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.