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Budget Updates

Dear Students, Staff, Parents, and Community Members,

The single greatest challenge we face as a school district in the next couple of months is financial. Our district’s multi-year projections (three years) indicates that we are facing a dramatic budget shortfall test. There are three factors that have caused the current fiscal challenge:

-MDUSD has been experiencing a consistent decline in student enrollment over the past ten years. It is important to note that many school districts in the Bay Area and throughout the state are faced with the same impact of declining enrollment. 

-The California Department of Education has required every school district in the state to dramatically increase the contribution to CalSTRS (State Teachers Retirement) and CalPERS (Public School Employees Retirement System). This increased funding demand directly impacts the district’s general fund that is normally intended for general education programs and staffing.

-MDUSD, along with every other school district in the state, is required to comply with all state and federal regulations to provide special education services. We are proud to serve our students with special needs, and yet this mandate does not come with the requisite funding to address the increased financial burden to the district. As a result, the district must make up the difference in cost with general funds that were intended to fund general education programs.

MDUSD has been deficit spending over the last six years, with expenditures exceeding revenue. As a result, our “reserve” or savings to help with increases in expenditures has been eroded to be close to the state required minimum.

It is important to note the district has weathered budget storms like this before (late 1990s and 2008). While the impacts and effects of these budget challenges are real, Mt Diablo Unified has always endured and emerged from each budget crisis stronger and more focused on the needs of students. The central focus of our school board members, as they address this challenge, is to work collaboratively with the community to keep students at the center of all financial decisions. 

The timeline for addressing these required budget reductions is compressed to comply with the March 15th deadline to notify certificated staff (teachers and leaders) of possible reassignment or elimination of positions. With input from the community, staff, and students, the school board will review a list of budget solutions (more commonly known as reductions) over the next couple of weeks. There are many ways the greater school community can provide feedback, discuss budget solutions, and ultimately make budget reductions. 

This page will continue to have weekly updates to provide the community with current information about our budget solution process as it moves into actions by the school board. Please note that an additional Special Board Meeting has been added to continue to discuss budget solutions on Monday, March 2nd at 5 pm.

Top 10 Best Concord, CA Public Elementary Schools (2023)

For the 2023 school year, there are 20 public elementary schools serving 8,402 students in Concord, CA.

The top ranked public elementary schools in Concord, CA are Monte Gardens Elementary School, Silverwood Elementary School and Highlands Elementary School. Overall testing rank is based on a school’s combined math and reading proficiency test score ranking.

Concord, CA public elementary schools have an average math proficiency score of 27% (versus the California public elementary school average of 41%), and reading proficiency score of 36% (versus the 50% statewide average). Elementary schools in Concord have an average ranking of 2/10, which is in the bottom 50% of California public elementary schools.

Minority enrollment is 80% of the student body (majority Hispanic), which is more than the California public elementary school average of 78% (majority Hispanic).

School (Math and Reading Proficiency)

Location

Grades

Students

Rank: #11.

Monte Gardens Elementary School

Math: 58% | Reading: 69%
Rank:

Top 20%

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3841 Larkspur Dr.
Concord, CA 94519
(925) 685-3834

Grades: K-5

| 482 students

Rank: #22.

Silverwood Elementary School

Math: 57% | Reading: 61%
Rank:

Top 30%

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1649 Claycord Ave.
Concord, CA 94521
(925) 687-1150

Grades: K-5

| 529 students

Rank: #33.

Highlands Elementary School

Math: 54% | Reading: 59%
Rank:

Top 30%

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1326 Pennsylvania Blvd.
Concord, CA 94521
(925) 672-5252

Grades: K-5

| 512 students

Rank: #44.

Ayers Elementary School

Math: 50% | Reading: 56%
Rank:

Top 30%

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5120 Myrtle Dr.
Concord, CA 94521
(925) 682-7686

Grades: K-5

| 405 students

Rank: #55.

Woodside Elementary School

Math: 45-49% | Reading: 50-54%
Rank:

Top 50%

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761 San Simeon Dr.
Concord, CA 94518
(925) 689-7671

Grades: K-5

| 281 students

Rank: #66.

Pine Hollow Middle School

Math: 39% | Reading: 49%
Rank:

Top 50%

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5522 Pine Hollow Rd.
Concord, CA 94521
(925) 672-5444

Grades: 6-8

| 562 students

Rank: #77.

Mountain View Elementary School

Math: 35-39% | Reading: 45-49%
Rank:

Top 50%

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1705 Thornwood Dr.
Concord, CA 94521
(925) 689-6450

Grades: K-5

| 281 students

Rank: #88.

Sunrise (Special Education)

Special Education School

Math: <50% | Reading: ≤20%
Rank:

Bottom 50%

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1861 Silverwood Dr.
Concord, CA 94519
(925) 687-0202

Grades: K-8

| 22 students

Rank: #99.

El Monte Elementary School

Math: 25-29% | Reading: 35-39%
Rank:

Bottom 50%

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1400 Dina Dr.
Concord, CA 94518
(925) 685-3113

Grades: K-5

| 417 students

Rank: #10 – 1110. – 11.

Westwood Elementary School

Math: 20-24% | Reading: 35-39%
Rank:

Bottom 50%

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1748 W. St.
Concord, CA 94521
(925) 685-4202

Grades: K-5

| 277 students

Rank: #10 – 1110. – 11.

Wren Avenue Elementary School

Math: 20-24% | Reading: 35-39%
Rank:

Bottom 50%

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3339 Wren Ave.
Concord, CA 94519
(925) 685-7002

Grades: K-5

| 364 students

Rank: #1212.

Holbrook Language Academy

Math: 30-34% | Reading: 20-24%
Rank:

Bottom 50%

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3333 Ronald Way
Concord, CA 94519
(925) 685-6446

Grades: K-8

| 401 students

Rank: #1313.

Meadow Homes Elementary School

Math: 22% | Reading: 27%
Rank:

Bottom 50%

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1371 Detroit Ave.
Concord, CA 94520
(925) 685-8760

Grades: K-5

| 757 students

Rank: #1414.

Ygnacio Valley Elementary School

Math: 21% | Reading: 25%
Rank:

Bottom 50%

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2217 Chalomar Rd.
Concord, CA 94518
(925) 682-9336

Grades: K-5

| 437 students

Rank: #1515.

Sun Terrace Elementary School

Math: 19% | Reading: 26%
Rank:

Bottom 50%

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2448 Floyd Ln.
Concord, CA 94520
(925) 682-4861

Grades: K-5

| 441 students

Rank: #1616.

El Dorado Middle School

Math: 12% | Reading: 24%
Rank:

Bottom 50%

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1750 W. St.
Concord, CA 94521
(925) 682-5700

Grades: 6-8

| 866 students

Rank: #1717.

Cambridge Elementary School

Math: 13% | Reading: 17%
Rank:

Bottom 50%

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1135 Lacey Ln.
Concord, CA 94520
(925) 686-4749

Grades: K-5

| 538 students

Rank: #1818.

Oak Grove Middle School

Math: 8% | Reading: 21%
Rank:

Bottom 50%

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2050 Minert Rd.
Concord, CA 94518
(925) 682-1843

Grades: 6-8

| 748 students

Rank: #1919.

Floyd I. Marchus

Special Education School

Math: ≤10% | Reading: ≤10%
Rank:

Bottom 50%

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2900 Avon Ave.
Concord, CA 94520
(925) 602-3421

Grades: K-12

| 59 students

Rank: n/an/a

Glenbrook Academy

Special Education School

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2351 Olivera Rd.
Concord, CA 94520
(925) 682-8000

Grades: 6-12

| 23 students

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Valery Milgrom. How the director of an elementary school in Concord found a Russian-speaking teacher for my daughter

And again, about the initial period of our life in the capital of New Hampshire, Concord.

We arrived in Concord on the last day of July 1993. My school year started in 4 weeks. During this time, a lot had to be done: from finding work for his wife to placing five-year-old Alice in school.

The latter turned out to be a simple matter. In the United States, secondary education is obtained by sequential education in three levels of school (more precisely, in three different schools): elementary school, middle school (junior high school) and senior (high school) classes. Rumford Elementary School was a block away from our house. We just went there with Alice and her papers, talked to the principal and a couple of teachers, and Alice was enrolled. nine0003

Of course, there was a question about our daughter’s English level. In New York, she went to a Russian-speaking kindergarten, where she got acquainted with the basics of English. But at that time in the family, at my insistence, we spoke only Russian (alas, I never managed to firmly “drive” this rule into the heads of my women). So she needed time to adapt to the English-speaking environment.

The school had an English teacher for foreign children (ESL – English as a Second Language – teacher). Alice became her only second “ward” – another girl from a Greek family studied at Rumfoord. The teacher worked with her daughter separately, and by the winter Alice, in terms of English proficiency, was no different from other children of her age. nine0003

When speaking with the principal of the school, the subject of language was discussed, I boasted that Alisa had known Russian letters since she was two years old, and since she was three she had been reading in syllables. Then he said that we understand that in America, most likely, she will not be able to keep Russian as her native language. But we would like her to grow up fully bilingual, able to read and write well in Russian.

Before leaving for Concord, we really paid a lot of attention to this. I was the first to arrive in the US, and my wife sent several parcels of Russian children’s books. Our “children’s library” was also replenished here – as soon as we could afford it. We worked with Alice every day – usually my wife, but on Sunday I also worked 6 days a week. nine0003

Unfortunately things have changed in Concord. The wife began to plow at two jobs and was exhausted to the point of nausea. I completely drowned in my studies: I read wherever I could, slept 3-4 hours a day.

(Readings in law school were given to us DAILY up to 150 pages of an encyclopedic format. Moreover, here lawyers are taught not from textbooks, but from collections of precedent decisions of the courts of appeal. And nothing in these collections is chewed, instead of comments after each decision, questions follow. the student develops independent thinking and the ability to express and defend his point of view.0003

And you can’t avoid doing homework: the learning process was very different from what I was used to. At a Soviet institute, new material was first explained at a lecture, and then fixed with homework. Here everything was the other way around: the law students first read the new material at home, and then the professor checked his assimilation at lectures. He raised the student and asked him to comment on the conclusion of the court on such and such a case. And regardless of the correctness of the answer, he would definitely “carry” the student in front of a hundred or two comrades: he brought up “thick-skinnedness” in the future lawyer. Without it, work in the courtroom is impossible in the United States: American judges “at home” have almost unlimited power and willingly use it. nine0003

Of course, the ridiculed student tried to argue, but where is it: the professor always knows the material better…)

So in the first months we were simply not in the mood for studying Russian with Alisa. Unfortunately.

“Respite” came around the end of November: we had four days off for Thanksgiving. It was then, after sleeping off, that I remembered Russian for my daughter. One day he asked Alice to bring a book that she would like to read today. And she brought … a photocopy of the fairy tale “The Wolf and the Seven Kids”. nine0003

We didn’t have this fairy tale. No original edition, no photocopy. I asked Alice where she got it. The answer was:

– Uncle John gave me this to read at home.

– ???

Gradually, from Alice’s obscure story and the explanations to it received at the Rumford School, the following striking picture was revealed to us.

My words about the desire to preserve Alice’s native language, it turns out, were not missed by the director (let’s call her Mary) past her ears. On the contrary, she decided to support our initiative and find an opportunity for Alice to study Russian at school. nine0003

At the Rumford Primary School, where students study until the 4th grade, of course, there was no Russian teacher, and Mary turned to a higher authority, an analogue of our district. The public school system of 40,000-strong Concord also did not have the right teacher. Mary again did not calm down, but turned further – to the state authorities. But even here the necessary teacher was not found. Russian was not taught at all in public schools in a state with a population of one million in 1993. French, German, Spanish, Italian – please. And there was no Russian. nine0003

It would seem that this initiative should have stalled. But no. The restless headmistress decided to get her way after all and turned her gaze to the system of private schools. And here she (and we) finally got lucky: in one of the most prestigious private boarding schools in the United States – Philips Exeter Academy – there was a Russian teacher named John.

The town of Exeter, home to this school of more than two centuries of tradition, was almost an hour’s drive from our Concorde. I have no idea how she did it, but the director “punched” the funds to pay for John’s travel and work. And he agreed to spend four hours of his personal time twice a week: two for a trip to Concord (an hour there and an hour back) and two for classes with his Russian student. And by that time he had been doing it for almost three months. nine0003

John not only read Russian with Alice. The lesson took place in a large room where the rest of the “five-year-olds” played under the supervision of a teacher. And after reading another fairy tale or short story, Alice had to retell it first in Russian to John, and then in English to all the children. So this wonderful teacher developed in her the ability to communicate in both languages. And he gradually introduced the rest of the children to Russian culture, which he was in love with.

Unfortunately, a couple of months after our meeting, John left for Moscow – he was offered an interesting job in Russia. And the director of Rumford, when we brought her flowers, was embarrassed and said a sacramental phrase:

– What are you… I was just doing my job.

Valery Milgrom

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Concord (disambiguation)

Contents

1 Agreement

· 2 places

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O 2.2 Asia

O 2.3 Australia

O 2.4 Canada

O 2.5 New Zealand

9000 O 2.6 The United Kingdom

o 2.7 United States

3 Education

4 Business

5 Other

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