Willow Cove Elementary

Willow Cove Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Pittsburg, California, part of Pittsburg Unified. The school hosts 592 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 27% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Pittsburg Unified comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 10,633 students; Willow Cove Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Willow Cove Elementary lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (82%). Other groups include 8% Black, 5% Asian, 3% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 29 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. Around 77% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Contra Costa County (around 45%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Willow Cove Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 33.7%; this one comes in at 17.7%, -16.0 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, census data for Contra Costa County shows median household income runs about $127,229, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Contra Costa County runs 280 public schools (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students), of which Willow Cove Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Bel Air Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Willow Cove Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 24.0%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Willow Cove Elementary's enrollment has declined 9% since 2018, when it stood at 652 (now 592).

On the community side, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.