Cesar Chavez Intermediate

As a compact 6-8 campus in Sacramento, California, Cesar Chavez Intermediate instructs 357 students from grades 4 through 6, one of the schools within Sacramento City Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Cesar Chavez Intermediate sits 46% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Sacramento City Unified, which oversees 73 schools and 37,657 students, Cesar Chavez Intermediate is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Cesar Chavez Intermediate records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 56% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 20% Asian, 11% Black, 4% multiracial, 4% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Cesar Chavez Intermediate higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 87% of students at Cesar Chavez Intermediate qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Sacramento County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Cesar Chavez Intermediate performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.6%, the actual is 25.5%, a residual of -2.1 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Sacramento County shows the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Sacramento County runs 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), of which Cesar Chavez Intermediate is one.

Nearest neighbor: Edward Kemble Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cesar Chavez Intermediate at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 22.4%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 7%: 384 students in 2018 compared to 357 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 20% to 11% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 24.3:1 in 2018 to 26.4:1 today.

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