Breen Elementary

Breen Elementary is an elementary campus of medium-sized scale in Rocklin, California, run under Rocklin Unified, hosting 424 students in grades K through 6.

Across the 18 schools in Rocklin Unified (11,579 students total), Breen Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Breen Elementary lists that the largest single group is White at 53%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 19% Hispanic, 16% multiracial, 10% Asian. By comparison, Placer County as a whole is about 69% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 23% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Placer County's rate of about 33%.

After controlling for student poverty, Breen Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.0%, the actual is 62.0%, a residual of -4.0 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Placer County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $115,998 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Placer County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 70,590 students), Breen Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Victory High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Breen Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 66.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Breen Elementary has decreased 22%, going from 546 students in 2018 to 424 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 71% to 53% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 24.8:1 in 2018 to 23.3:1 in 2025.

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