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Which teacher or staff member at Arcade Middle deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
595
Middle
DISTRICT 730 · STATE 659
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAN JUAN UNIFIED·NCES 063462005752
Arcade Middle
3500 Edison Ave., Sacramento, CA 95821 · (916) 971-7300 · Sacramento County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL595 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 9% of California public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- FThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public middle schools
Student : Teacher
24.3:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.3:1 · STATE 20.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
496 students
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 166 | 28% |
| Grade 7 | 235 | 39% |
| Grade 8 | 194 | 33% |
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
25.9%
CA avg 49.1% . -24.1pp since 2014
Math
14.4%
CA avg 37.7% . -19.6pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 24 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 20 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 7.6% | 18.3% | 21.8% | 52.3% |
| Math | 5.8% | 8.6% | 18.9% | 66.7% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.9% | 14.4% |
| 2023-24 | 25.9% | 17.4% |
| 2022-23 | 29.8% | 19.2% |
| 2021-22 | 37.8% | 19.9% |
| 2018-19 | 43.3% | 28.6% |
| 2017-18 | 42.5% | 26.8% |
| 2016-17 | 46.9% | 31.7% |
| 2015-16 | 51.0% | 34.0% |
| 2014-15 | 50.0% | 34.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
20.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
30.7%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Arcade Middle
Arcade Middle's state test result (20.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arcade Middle this school | 595 | 83.4% | 20.5% |
| Nelson Avenue Middle Oroville | 456 | 85.7% | 29.1% |
| Katherine Johnson Middle Sacramento | 612 | 90.2% | 5.6% |
| Foothill Ranch Middle Sacramento | 509 | 92.9% | 21.5% |
| Parsons Junior High Redding | 522 | 79.3% | 35.7% |
| Francisco Middle San Francisco | 496 | 74.2% | 35.2% |
Matched among California middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Arcade Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Sacramento County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.5% | #1,036 of 1,224 | #31 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 14.4% | #1,037 of 1,227 ▼ 173 | #32 of 39 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.9% | #1,077 of 1,227 ▼ 45 | #33 of 39 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -8.7pp | #16 of 1,214 | #1 of 39 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 595 | #769 of 1,377 | #28 of 41 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.3:1 | #1,110 of 1,279 | #36 of 39 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.0% | #55 of 1,278 | #15 of 39 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.4% | #449 of 1,329 | #11 of 39 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +36.8% | #16 of 257 | #1 of 14 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
595
+48 (+9%) vs 2020
+3% since 1990-91, when it was 580
Student : Teacher
24.3:1
was 24.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 595 | 24.5 | 24.3:1 | 83% (496) |
| 2023-24 | 391 | 18 | 21.7:1 | 72% (282) |
| 2022-23 | 407 | 19.5 | 20.9:1 | 68% (278) |
| 2020-21 | 547 | 22 | 24.9:1 | 63% (347) |
| 2017-18 | 435 | 18.6 | 23.4:1 | 63% (275) |
| 2015-16 | 485 | 19 | 25.5:1 | 56% (274) |
| 2010-11 | 586 | N/A | N/A | 33% (195) |
| 2000-01 | 594 | 23 | 25.8:1 | 16% (97) |
| 1990-91 | 580 | 21 | 27.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Arcade Middle.
Since 2017-18: students up 37% (435 to 595); teachers up 32% (18.6 to 24.5).
About Arcade Middle
Arcade Middle is a medium-sized middle school in California, located in Sacramento. Grades offered run from 6 through 8, with 595 students enrolled.
The San Juan Unified system has 67 schools and 39,171 students.
At Arcade Middle, the largest share of students is Asian, at 35%. The remaining shares are 32% White, 20% Hispanic, 7% Black, and 5% multiracial. Sacramento County as a whole is about 18% Asian, so the school's share is higher. Pick two students at random and there is a 73% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Arcade Middle counts 24.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 24.3 students for each one. This ratio sits 3.6 above the 20.7:1 average for middle schools in California. About 83% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. The average for public schools in Sacramento County is 63%.
The allk12 Grade for Arcade Middle is D. Compared with California public middle schools, the school scored higher than 9% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
In California, Arcade Middle is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 20.5% actual against a predicted 30.7%.
According to the American Community Survey, in Sacramento County, the median household income is $92,175, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of people live in poverty. Arcade Middle is one of 387 public schools in the county.
Mira Loma High is located about 0.6 miles from Arcade Middle. The five-mile area around Arcade Middle holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 30.7%, higher than Arcade Middle's 20.5%.
Under the NCES locale system, Arcade Middle is Suburb: Large.
Federal data show a 9% enrollment gain, from 547 in 2020-21 to 595 in 2024-25.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Sacramento County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,594,006
Census ACS
Median income
$92,175
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
387
259,342 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in San Juan Unified
- Bella Vista HighHigh · 1,939 students
- Rio Americano HighHigh · 1,891 students
- Mira Loma HighHigh · 1,655 students
- Del Campo HighHigh · 1,548 students
- El Camino Fundamental HighHigh · 1,226 students
- Casa Roble Fundamental HighHigh · 1,150 students
Other schools in Sacramento
- Highlands Community CharterCombined · 11,713 students
- C. K. McClatchy HighHigh · 2,569 students
- Sheldon HighHigh · 2,368 students
- Inderkum HighHigh · 2,194 students
- Grant Union HighHigh · 1,987 students
- Rio Americano HighHigh · 1,891 students
Nearby schools
- Mira Loma High0.6 mi · 1,655
- James R. Cowan Fundamental Elementary0.6 mi · 406
- Whitney Avenue Elementary0.9 mi · 411
- Pasadena Avenue Elementary1.0 mi · 343
- Oakdale TK-81.4 mi · 559
- Del Paso Manor Elementary1.5 mi · 734
Frequently asked questions
About Arcade MiddleWhat is the total enrollment at Arcade Middle?
Arcade Middle enrolls approximately 595 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Arcade Middle serve?
Arcade Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Arcade Middle have?
Arcade Middle employs 24 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 24.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Arcade Middle?
At Arcade Middle, the student body is approximately 32% White, 20% Hispanic, 7% Black, 35% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Arcade Middle public or private?
Arcade Middle is a public K-12 school, overseen by San Juan Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.