El Monte Elementary School is a public primary school located in Concord, California

Concord, California

Concord is the largest city in Contra Costa County, California, USA. At the 2010 census, the city had a population of 122,067. Originally founded in 1869 as the community of Todos Santos by Salvio Pacheco, the name was changed to Concord within months...

 which educates students from kindergarten to fifth grade. The school is part of the Mount Diablo Unified School District

Mount Diablo Unified School District

The Mount Diablo Unified School District is a public school district in Contra Costa County, California. It currently operates 32 elementary schools, 10 middle schools and six high schools, with 13 alternative school programs and an adult education program. Mt...

. As of 2009, the school principal is Christina Bowman.

The school was founded in 1955. Its name, which means "the mountain" in Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

, refers to nearby Mount Diablo.

Academics

El Monte students have been locally and nationally recognized for their efforts. Most recently, eleven fifth-grade language arts students from El Monte have had their poems accepted for publication in a national poetry anthology, !'A Celebration of Young Poets.