Bridge Street Elementary

Located at 500 Bridge St., in Yuba City, California, Bridge Street Elementary is a mid-sized elementary campus that teaches 480 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Yuba City Unified.

Across the 17 schools in Yuba City Unified (11,388 students total), Bridge Street Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Bridge Street Elementary lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 66%. The remainder reads as 14% White, 10% Asian, 8% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 33%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Sutter County's rate of about 60%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bridge Street Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.0%, the actual is 17.9%, a residual of -7.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Sutter County indicate the typical household earns roughly $79,704 per year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Sutter County runs 46 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,784 students), of which Bridge Street Elementary is one.

Yuba City Charter is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bridge Street Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bridge Street Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 28.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bridge Street Elementary has shrank 9%, going from 529 students in 2018 to 480 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment rose from 5% to 10% over that span.

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