Westwood Elementary

Westwood Elementary is a primary school of modestly sized scale in Concord, California, operated by Mt. Diablo Unified, enrolling 224 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 52% smaller than the state mean of about 465.

Mt. Diablo Unified comprises 50 schools with combined enrollment of 29,210 students; Westwood Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, Westwood Elementary records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (46%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 30% White, 13% Asian, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 28% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 72% of students at Westwood Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Contra Costa County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Westwood Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.4%, the actual is 37.5%, a residual of +1.1 points.

Around the school, Contra Costa County reports that 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%. Westwood Elementary is one of 280 public schools in Contra Costa County (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students).

Nearest neighbor: El Dorado Middle, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Westwood Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 33.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Westwood Elementary's enrollment has shrank 27% since 2018, when it stood at 307 (now 224). Over the same period, the Asian share increased from 7% to 13%. Class-load math has widened: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 in 2025.

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