Cottage Elementary

Cottage Elementary is one of the average-sized elementary-level communitys in Sacramento, California, overseen by San Juan Unified, with 502 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Cottage Elementary is one of 67 schools operated by San Juan Unified, a district that instructs 39,171 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Cottage Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Asian (42%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 33% White, 14% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Black. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 26.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 76% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Sacramento County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cottage Elementary is in the bottom 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 34.0%; Cottage Elementary posts 10.6%, -23.5 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, census data for Sacramento County shows the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Cottage Elementary is one.

Katherine Johnson Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cottage Elementary at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 15.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Cottage Elementary's enrollment has rose 39% since 2018, when it stood at 362 (now 502). Over the same period, the Asian share edged up from 22% to 42%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 27.9:1 in 2018 to 26.4:1 today.

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