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Walt Disney Elementary
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 74% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Walt Disney Elementary
Walt Disney Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in San Ramon, California, run under San Ramon Valley Unified. Current enrollment sits at 523 students spanning grades K through 5.
Within San Ramon Valley Unified, which oversees 36 schools and 28,554 students, Walt Disney Elementary is one campus in the system.
On demographics, Walt Disney Elementary shows that 47% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 27% White, 12% multiracial, 12% Hispanic. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 9% of students at Walt Disney Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Contra Costa County (around 45%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Walt Disney Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.2%, the actual is 68.3%, a residual of -5.9 points.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Contra Costa County put median household earnings sit near $127,229, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Walt Disney Elementary is one of 280 public schools in Contra Costa County (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students).
Nearest neighbor: Pine Valley Middle, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Walt Disney Elementary comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 71.6%.
The campus sits in an urban setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Walt Disney Elementary has showed little movement, going from 529 students in 2018 to 523 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 42% to 27%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 25.6:1 in 2018 to 23.0:1 in 2025.
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