28 Contra Costa County elementary schools earn state honors for education excellence

Contra Costa County education officials are celebrating the selection of 28 elementary schools throughout the county to the prestigious 2023 California Distinguished Schools award by the California Department of Education.

The California Department of Education explained these exceptional elementary schools are “illustrative of the hard work, dedication, and resilience shown by educators and schools across the state after communities struggled for multiple years with urgent effects to physical and mental health and unprecedented challenges to delivering education.”