Bell Avenue Elementary

Bell Avenue Elementary is an elementary-level community of cozy scale in Sacramento, California, part of Robla Elementary, enrolling 377 students in grades K through 6.

Within Robla Elementary, which oversees 5 schools and 1,892 students, Bell Avenue Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Bell Avenue Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 23% Asian, 19% White, 8% Black. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Bell Avenue Elementary records 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 25.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Bell Avenue Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Sacramento County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Bell Avenue Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.7%, the actual is 31.3%, a residual of +1.6 points.

In the area at large, Sacramento County reports that the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Sacramento County's 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), Bell Avenue Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: North Area Community, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bell Avenue Elementary at 1st of 4; the average score across the group is 21.1%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 21%: 477 students in 2018 compared to 377 in 2025.

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