Woodside Elementary

Located at 761 San Simeon Dr., in Concord, California, Woodside Elementary is a tight-knit primary school that hosts 289 students (grades K through 5), operated by Mt. Diablo Unified. That puts it 38% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Woodside Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 29% White, 15% multiracial, 12% Asian, 2% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Contra Costa County's rate of about 45%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Woodside Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 43.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 39.4%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Contra Costa County) reports that median household earnings sit near $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%. Across Contra Costa County's 280 public schools (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students), Woodside Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Valle Verde Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Woodside Elementary at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 48.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Woodside Elementary's enrollment has decreased 17% since 2018, when it stood at 350 (now 289). The White share of enrollment decreased from 34% to 29% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 25.7:1 today.

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