Tice Creek

Tice Creek, a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Walnut Creek, California, run under Walnut Creek Elementary, hosts 451 students, covering grades K through 8.

Walnut Creek Elementary comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,597 students; Tice Creek is among them.

On demographics, Tice Creek logs that the largest single group is White at 44%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 22% Asian, 21% multiracial, 11% Hispanic. Compared to Contra Costa County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 8% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Contra Costa County's rate of about 45%.

With demographic context factored in, Tice Creek tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 75.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 76.8%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Contra Costa County shows 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. In all, Contra Costa County runs 280 public schools (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students), of which Tice Creek is one.

The closest other public school is Parkmead Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Tice Creek ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 69.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Tice Creek has rose 4%, going from 433 students in 2018 to 451 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 59% to 44%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 22.5:1 in 2018 to 21.4:1 in 2025.

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