Cordova Villa Elementary

Cordova Villa Elementary is a mid-tier elementary-level community in Rancho Cordova, California, run under Folsom-Cordova Unified. The school works with 475 students in grades K through 5.

Cordova Villa Elementary is one of 35 schools operated by Folsom-Cordova Unified, a district that instructs 21,699 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Cordova Villa Elementary shows that 48% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 19% multiracial, 12% Black, 11% Asian, 10% White. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Cordova Villa Elementary logs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 86% of students at Cordova Villa Elementary 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 somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Cordova Villa Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.2%, the actual is 20.0%, a residual of -8.2 points.

In the broader community, Sacramento County reports that median household earnings sit near $92,175, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Sacramento County runs 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), of which Cordova Villa Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is White Rock Elementary, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Cordova Villa Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 23.2%.

Cordova Villa Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 480 students in 2018 compared to 475 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 18% to 10% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.0:1 in 2018 to 21.0:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.