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The Rossmoor Scholarship Foundation (RSF) works with eight Contra Costa County educational institutions, all of whom have student bodies reflecting great ethnic diversity, most of whom can be categorized as coming from economically disadvantaged families.
Antioch High School
Nearly seventy percent of Antioch High School students are socioeconomically disadvantaged. Fifty-seven percent of its 1,960 students are Hispanic, nineteen percent African American, twelve percent white, and the remaining twelve percent are from a variety of other nationalities and minority groups. Nearly twenty percent are English language learners.
Deer Valley High School
Over ninety percent of Deer Valley High School’s 1,851 students qualify as minority. Seventy-one percent come from economically disadvantaged families, and fifty-eight percent qualify for free lunches. Located in Antioch, Deer Valley High School graduates eighty-eight percent of its students.
Mt. Diablo High School
More than fifty percent of Mount Diablo High School students qualify as financially disadvantaged. They come from many ethnic backgrounds, and many have mother tongues other than English. Seventy percent live in Bay Point, which has no high school, and thus they have to
commute daily. The remaining thirty percent live in and around Concord.
Pittsburg High School
Sixty-one percent of Pittsburg’s population of 76,000 is economically disadvantaged and sixty-nine percent of Pittsburg High School students qualify for free lunch. The school has 3,688 students. Pittsburg High School boasts an impressive ninty-one percent graduation rate, and twenty-two percent of its graduates go on to complete a bachelor’s degree.
Ygnacio Valley High School
Sixty-seven percent of Ygnacio Valley High School students are economically disadvantaged, the greatest percentage in the Mt. Diablo Unified School District. Of its 1,265 students, seventy-five percent are of Latino/a heritage and fifteen percent are African Americans, Asian Americans and other minority groups. Students come from Afghanistan, Ukraine, Russia, Somalia and other places around the globe. Many Ygnacio Valley High School students are in ESL classes, because they came with little or no knowledge of the language.