Catheryn Gates Elementary
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardWhat this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 11 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 10 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Catheryn Gates Elementary
Catheryn Gates Elementary is a small elementary campus in Roseville, California, overseen by Roseville City Elementary. The school educates 383 students in grades K through 5.
Across the 21 schools in Roseville City Elementary (12,306 students total), Catheryn Gates Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Looking at the student body, Catheryn Gates Elementary shows that the largest single group is White at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 25% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 13% multiracial, 3% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.
In terms of school funding signals, Catheryn Gates Elementary lists 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.1:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 53% of students at Catheryn Gates Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Placer County's rate of about 33%.
With demographic context factored in, Catheryn Gates Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.1%, the actual is 53.3%, a residual of +5.3 points.
Around the school, Placer County reports that median household earnings sit near $115,998, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Placer County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 70,590 students), Catheryn Gates Elementary is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Vencil Brown Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Catheryn Gates Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 44.8%.
The school occupies a high-density site.
Five-year trend. Catheryn Gates Elementary's enrollment has edged down 31% since 2018, when it stood at 559 (now 383). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 56% to 45%.
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