Summary
Mt. Diablo High is a public grades 9–12 school in Concord, California, serving 1,397 students in the East Bay and part of Mt. Diablo Unified. Its most pressing academic concern is that proficiency is well below state and district levels in every subject: in 2025–2026, about 30% of students were proficient in ELA, 12% in math and 15% in science, with math furthest behind the state and district.
Compared with nearby comprehensive high schools, Mt. Diablo also falls short of the four-school average in all three subjects: its results were about 8 points lower in ELA, 8 points lower in math and 7 points lower in science. Among those subjects, science is closest to nearby peers; ELA is least far behind the state and district, while math has the largest gaps—about 26 points below the state and 27 below the district. Results at nearby schools vary: for example, Ygnacio Valley High scored higher than Mt. Diablo in all three subjects. Graduation is a relative bright spot: 93% of students graduated in 2025–2026, compared with 88% statewide and 94% in the district. However, chronic absenteeism was 37%, about 19 points above the state rate and 18 above the district rate.
Results have changed unevenly: since 2022–2023, ELA proficiency fell about 8 points, math changed very little and science rose about 3 points, while state proficiency increased in every subject. SchoolDigger ranks Mt. Diablo at the 25th percentile statewide, with 1 star, down from the 34th percentile in 2022–2023. Its 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio was 19.7, and 80% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible that year; both figures offer context, not an explanation for outcomes. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking for how well the school serves Asian students was at the 2nd percentile in 2025–2026, compared with the school’s overall 25th percentile. Its ranking for African American students shifted sharply, from the 57th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 19th in 2024–2025 and 35th in 2025–2026.
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