Pleasant Hill Middle

Pleasant Hill Middle, a moderately sized junior high in Pleasant Hill, California, one of the schools within Mt. Diablo Unified, serves 738 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

Across the 50 schools in Mt. Diablo Unified (29,210 students total), Pleasant Hill Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Pleasant Hill Middle shows that the most-represented group is White (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 33% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 10% Asian, 4% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Pleasant Hill Middle reports 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.3:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 44% of students at Pleasant Hill Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pleasant Hill Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.0%, the actual is 45.8%, a residual of -7.2 points.

Across the wider county, 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 the poverty rate sits near 6%. Pleasant Hill Middle is one of 280 public schools in Contra Costa County (combined enrollment of about 167,423 students).

Nearest neighbor: Prospect High (Continuation), around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pleasant Hill Middle ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.9%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Pleasant Hill Middle's enrollment has edged down 15% since 2018, when it stood at 865 (now 738). Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 38% to 33%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.8:1 in 2018 to 23.3:1 in 2025.

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