Summary
Woodside Elementary is a K–5 school in Concord, California, serving 289 students in the Mt. Diablo Unified district. Its 2025–2026 proficiency was below both state and district results in every tested subject; the clearest concern is ELA, where 35% of students were proficient, compared with 49% statewide and 49% districtwide.
Among its academic results, science is closest to the state and district benchmarks, while ELA has the largest gaps. Woodside’s proficiency was 31% in science, 32% in math and 35% in ELA; those results were respectively 4, 8 and 14 percentage points below the district, and 5, 7 and 15 points below the state. Woodside also scored below the averages for nearby K–5 schools in all three subjects: 42% in ELA, 43% in math and 35% in science, compared with Woodside’s 35%, 32% and 31%. Nearby averages cover nine K–5 schools and exclude Eagle Peak Montessori, which serves grades 1–8. Fifth grade is a relative bright spot: ELA proficiency was 46%, just 3 points below the state, compared with 28% in third grade and 32% in fourth.
Woodside’s all-grades ELA proficiency fell 12 percentage points between 2022–2023 and 2025–2026; math was down 1 point and science down 2 over the same period. SchoolDigger gives the school a 2-star rating and places it at the 36th percentile statewide, down from the 55th percentile in 2022–2023; locally, six nearby schools have higher percentiles and four have lower ones. Its student-teacher ratio is 25.6, close to the nearby-school average of 26.6. The school reports that 61% of students were free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025, up 28 percentage points since 2022–2023. SchoolDigger’s statewide percentile for Male Students, a measure of how the school serves that group relative to peers, fell from 62 in 2023–2024 to 30 in 2025–2026. Its percentile for White Students is also notably low: 12 in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, compared with the school’s overall percentile of 36.
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