Charles E. Mack Elementary

Charles E. Mack Elementary is a primary school of roomy scale in Sacramento, California, run under Elk Grove Unified, hosting 840 students in grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 81% above typical.

Elk Grove Unified comprises 67 schools with combined enrollment of 63,232 students; Charles E. Mack Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Charles E. Mack Elementary lists that 50% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 30% Asian, 8% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Charles E. Mack Elementary has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Charles E. Mack Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Sacramento County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Charles E. Mack Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.6%, the actual is 26.0%, a residual of -3.6 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Sacramento County) records that the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Charles E. Mack Elementary is one of 387 public schools in Sacramento County (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students).

The closest other public school is Parkway Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Charles E. Mack Elementary at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 21.9%.

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

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Charles E. Mack Elementary has contracted 4%, going from 873 students in 2018 to 840 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 18% to 30% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 26.1:1 in 2018 to 25.0:1 today.

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