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Honest take: what's the hardest part about being a student at Bowling Green Elementary?
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Enrollment
685
Elementary
DISTRICT 415 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SACRAMENTO CITY UNIFIED·NCES 063384005224
Bowling Green Elementary
4211 Turnbridge Dr., Sacramento, CA 95823 · (916) 395-5215 · Sacramento County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL685 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 25% of California public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- A-Three-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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
23.2:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.4:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
562 students
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 81 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 95 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 113 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 95 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 108 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 103 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 21% smaller than its 6th grade class (103).
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 74% · 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
28.7%
CA avg 49.1% . +4.7pp since 2014
Math
28.2%
CA avg 37.7% . +12.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 12 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 10.3% | 18.4% | 24.5% | 46.8% |
| Math | 8.7% | 19.4% | 26.9% | 44.9% |
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 | 28.7% | 28.2% |
| 2023-24 | 25.1% | 21.4% |
| 2022-23 | 31.9% | 23.9% |
| 2021-22 | 25.3% | 19.3% |
| 2018-19 | 32.9% | 28.3% |
| 2017-18 | 26.4% | 25.1% |
| 2016-17 | 24.9% | 24.6% |
| 2015-16 | 27.0% | 22.0% |
| 2014-15 | 24.0% | 16.0% |
% 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
25.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.5%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% 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 Bowling Green Elementary
Bowling Green Elementary's state test result (25.9% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bowling Green Elementary this school | 685 | 82.0% | 25.9% |
| Harder Elementary Hayward | 671 | 80.3% | 13.9% |
| Harrison Elementary Stockton | 640 | 81.6% | 23.2% |
| McKinley Elementary Fresno | 671 | 83.9% | 27.0% |
| Denker Avenue Elementary Gardena | 670 | 79.9% | 44.4% |
| John Steinbeck Elementary Fresno | 689 | 85.1% | 29.7% |
Matched among California elementary 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 Bowling Green Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Sacramento County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.9% | #3,984 of 5,151 | #146 of 217 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.2% | #3,403 of 5,172 ▲ 619 | #122 of 217 ▲ 27 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.7% | #4,109 of 5,172 ▲ 180 | #155 of 217 ▲ 12 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.1pp | #1,350 of 5,116 | #48 of 213 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 685 | #838 of 5,915 | #54 of 238 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.2:1 | #3,162 of 5,352 | #107 of 227 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.9% | #3,004 of 5,354 | #217 of 227 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.0% | #1,972 of 5,625 | #67 of 235 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.0% | #1,902 of 3,837 | #55 of 145 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
685
-69 (-9%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 746
Student : Teacher
23.2:1
was 26.0:1
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 | 685 | 29.5 | 23.2:1 | 82% (562) |
| 2023-24 | 703 | 30 | 23.4:1 | 89% (629) |
| 2022-23 | 728 | 31 | 23.5:1 | 89% (650) |
| 2020-21 | 754 | 29 | 26.0:1 | 91% (686) |
| 2017-18 | 815 | 38.4 | 21.2:1 | 87% (705) |
| 2015-16 | 877 | 34 | 25.8:1 | 73% (640) |
| 2010-11 | 782 | N/A | N/A | 85% (664) |
| 2000-01 | 973 | 48 | 20.3:1 | 85% (827) |
| 1990-91 | 746 | 31 | 24.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bowling Green Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (815 to 685); teachers down 23% (38.4 to 29.5).
About Bowling Green Elementary
Bowling Green Elementary is classified as an elementary school. It is located in Sacramento, California. The student body numbers 685 students, from kindergarten through 6. Average enrollment for elementary schools in California is about 465, so this school runs 47% larger than that.
Bowling Green Elementary is run by Sacramento City Unified, whose 73 schools enroll 37,657 students.
Hispanic students are the majority at Bowling Green Elementary, with 71% of enrollment. It is also 15% Asian, 8% Black, 2% multiracial, and 2% White. Sacramento County's residents are about 24% Hispanic, 47 points below the school's share. Pick two students at random and there is a 47% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
With 29.5 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Bowling Green Elementary was 23.2:1. On average, elementary schools in California have 22.3:1, compared with 23.2:1 here. Bowling Green Elementary's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 82%. For comparison, public schools in Sacramento County average 63%.
The allk12 Grade for Bowling Green Elementary is C. Compared with California public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 25% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
After adjusting for student poverty, Bowling Green Elementary lands between the top and bottom 10% of California schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 25.9%; the prediction is 31.5%.
County data help place the school in context: in Sacramento County, the median household income is $92,175, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. In all, Sacramento County has 387 public schools and roughly 259,342 students.
The school nearest to Bowling Green Elementary is Fern Bacon Middle, at a distance of about 0.1 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 18.4%; Bowling Green Elementary's is 25.9%, ranking 2nd of 9.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. Bowling Green Elementary is one of the charter schools in California.
Enrollment at Bowling Green Elementary dropped 9% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 754 to 685 students. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (23.2:1) than in 2020-21 (26.0:1).
Community posts for Bowling Green Elementary can cover school safety, transportation, and start times. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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 Sacramento City Unified
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- Rosemont HighHigh · 1,485 students
- Miwok MiddleMiddle · 1,181 students
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Other Bowling Green Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Bowling Green Elementary. Bowling Green Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- Bowling Green ElementaryMilford, VA · 837 students
- BOWLING GREEN ELEM.BOWLING GREEN, MO · 472 students
- BOWLING GREEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBOWLING GREEN, FL · 260 students
Nearby schools
- Fern Bacon Middle0.1 mi · 679
- Luther Burbank High0.7 mi · 1,535
- Pacific Elementary0.8 mi · 597
- Nicholas Elementary1.1 mi · 482
- Parkway Elementary1.1 mi · 409
- Woodbine Elementary1.1 mi · 289
Frequently asked questions
About Bowling Green ElementaryHow large is Bowling Green Elementary?
Bowling Green Elementary enrolls approximately 685 students in grades KG-06.
Is Bowling Green Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Bowling Green Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Bowling Green Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bowling Green Elementary is approximately 23.2:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Bowling Green Elementary?
Student demographics at Bowling Green Elementary are roughly 2% White, 71% Hispanic, 8% Black, 15% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Bowling Green Elementary public or private?
Bowling Green Elementary is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by Sacramento City Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.