Bowling Green Elementary

Bowling Green Elementary is one of the average-sized elementary schools in Sacramento, California, one of the schools within Sacramento City Unified, with 685 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. That puts it 47% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Sacramento City Unified, which oversees 73 schools and 37,657 students, Bowling Green Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Bowling Green Elementary records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 71%; the rest comes out to 15% Asian, 8% Black, 2% multiracial, 2% White. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Bowling Green Elementary has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Bowling Green Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 82% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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 above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Bowling Green Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 30.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.4%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Sacramento County indicate the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Sacramento County's 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), Bowling Green Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Fern Bacon Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bowling Green Elementary at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 17.9%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting. Bowling Green Elementary is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bowling Green Elementary has ticked down 16%, going from 815 students in 2018 to 685 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 14% to 8% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 21.2:1 in 2018 to 23.2:1 today.

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