Enrollment
379
Elementary
DISTRICT 397 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST CONTRA COSTA UNIFIED·NCES 063255005062
Stewart Elementary
2040 Hoke Dr., Pinole, CA 94564 · (510) 231-1410 · Contra Costa County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL379 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
20.5:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
185 students
DISTRICT 66% · STATE 65%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 59 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 36 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 34 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 39 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 43 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 41 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 40 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 49 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 38 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (59) is 55% larger than its 8th grade class (38).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
48.5%
CA avg 49.1% . +10.5pp since 2014
Math
36.2%
CA avg 37.7% . +8.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 8 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 18.6% | 29.9% | 20.4% | 31.2% |
| Math | 12.9% | 23.3% | 27.2% | 36.6% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.5% | 36.2% |
| 2023-24 | 45.3% | 28.7% |
| 2022-23 | 41.0% | 24.2% |
| 2021-22 | 38.1% | 19.8% |
| 2018-19 | 30.5% | 21.5% |
| 2017-18 | 33.3% | 19.9% |
| 2016-17 | 35.6% | 26.1% |
| 2015-16 | 37.0% | 26.0% |
| 2014-15 | 38.0% | 28.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
39.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.9%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Stewart Elementary
Stewart Elementary's state test result (39.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stewart Elementary this school | 379 | 48.8% | 39.4% |
| Gompers Lakewood | 366 | 46.7% | 45.3% |
| Sally Buselt Elementary Menifee | 374 | 50.0% | 53.6% |
| Evelyn Carr Elementary Torrance | 483 | 43.9% | 48.3% |
| MacArthur Elementary Lakewood | 340 | 47.6% | 61.2% |
| Collins Elementary Pinole | 311 | 50.5% | 31.5% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Stewart Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Contra Costa County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.4% | #2,543 of 5,151 | #76 of 149 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.2% | #2,618 of 5,172 ▲ 598 | #81 of 153 ▲ 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.5% | #2,159 of 5,172 ▲ 97 | #75 of 153 ▲ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +13.4pp | #274 of 5,116 | #5 of 150 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 379 | #3,940 of 5,915 | #126 of 164 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.5:1 | #1,206 of 5,352 | #25 of 162 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.4% | #1,583 of 5,354 | #99 of 162 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.8% | #3,956 of 5,625 | #79 of 158 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.7% | #1,566 of 3,837 | #34 of 107 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
379
-26 (-6%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 500
Student : Teacher
20.5:1
was 23.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 379 | 18.5 | 20.5:1 | 49% (185) |
| 2023-24 | 366 | 19.9 | 18.4:1 | 57% (210) |
| 2022-23 | 376 | 19.1 | 19.6:1 | 40% (150) |
| 2020-21 | 405 | 17 | 23.8:1 | 53% (214) |
| 2017-18 | 466 | 21.6 | 21.6:1 | 47% (217) |
| 2015-16 | 475 | 20 | 23.8:1 | 43% (202) |
| 2010-11 | 530 | N/A | N/A | 42% (222) |
| 2000-01 | 567 | 27 | 21.0:1 | 24% (134) |
| 1990-91 | 500 | 21 | 23.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Stewart Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (466 to 379); teachers down 14% (21.6 to 18.5).
About Stewart Elementary
Stewart Elementary is a public elementary school in Pinole, California. The school serves kindergarten through 8. Enrollment is 379 students.
Stewart Elementary is one of 52 schools in West Contra Costa Unified, which enrolls 25,133 students in total.
Hispanic students are 57% of those enrolled at Stewart Elementary. Beyond that, enrollment is 18% Asian, 10% Black, 8% White, and 7% multiracial. In Contra Costa County overall, about 28% of residents are Hispanic. A diversity index of 62% means there is a 62% chance two randomly chosen students at Stewart Elementary are from different groups.
On staff are 18.5 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 20.5:1. Statewide, elementary schools in California average 22.3:1. Stewart Elementary has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 49%.
Stewart Elementary sits between the top and bottom 10% of California schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 39.4% and a predicted 50.9%.
American Community Survey estimates for Contra Costa County show that median household income comes to about $127,229, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 45% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 6%. Contra Costa County counts 280 public schools with about 167,423 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Pinole Valley High, is about 0.2 miles. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Stewart Elementary is 4th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 379, from 405 in 2020-21. The school's ratio dropped from 23.8:1 to 20.5:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Contra Costa County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,165,012
Census ACS
Median income
$127,229
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
280
167,423 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in West Contra Costa Unified
- El Cerrito HighHigh · 1,460 students
- Richmond HighHigh · 1,280 students
- Pinole Valley HighHigh · 1,245 students
- De Anza HighHigh · 1,047 students
- Hercules HighHigh · 767 students
- John F. Kennedy HighHigh · 740 students
Other schools in Pinole
- Pinole Valley HighHigh · 1,245 students
- West County MandarinElementary · 528 students
- Pinole MiddleMiddle · 381 students
- Shannon ElementaryElementary · 355 students
- Ellerhorst ElementaryElementary · 319 students
- Collins ElementaryElementary · 311 students
Other Stewart Elementary schools
12 other US public schools in 10 states are named Stewart Elementary. Stewart Elementary is the 8th largest of the 13.
- Stewart Elementary SchoolMONTGOMERY, TX · 914 students
- Stewart Elementary SchoolHUNTSVILLE, TX · 547 students
- Stewart Elementary SchoolCincinnati, OH · 502 students
- Stewart Elementary SchoolWashington, IA · 457 students
- Stewart ElemSalina, KS · 406 students
Nearby schools
- Pinole Valley High0.2 mi · 1,245
- Collins Elementary0.8 mi · 311
- West County Mandarin0.9 mi · 528
- Pinole Middle0.9 mi · 381
- Betty Reid Soskin Middle1.0 mi · 372
- Murphy Elementary1.0 mi · 460
Frequently asked questions
About Stewart ElementaryHow many students attend Stewart Elementary?
Stewart Elementary enrolls approximately 379 students in grades KG-08.
Is Stewart Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Stewart Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
How many teachers does Stewart Elementary have?
Stewart Elementary employs 19 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Stewart Elementary?
Student demographics at Stewart Elementary are roughly 8% White, 57% Hispanic, 10% Black, 18% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Stewart Elementary public or private?
Stewart Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by West Contra Costa Unified.
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