Creekside Oaks Elementary

Creekside Oaks Elementary operates as a reasonably sized K-5 school in Lincoln, California, one of the schools within Western Placer Unified. Current enrollment sits at 557 students spanning grades K through 5.

Creekside Oaks Elementary is one of 14 schools operated by Western Placer Unified, a district that serves 8,030 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Creekside Oaks Elementary records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 56%. Other groups include 32% White, 8% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Placer County as a whole is about 16% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 53% of students at Creekside Oaks Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Placer County runs at roughly 33%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Creekside Oaks Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.7%; this one delivers 37.2%.

In the broader community, census data for Placer County shows median household income runs about $115,998, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Creekside Oaks Elementary is one of 123 public schools in Placer County (combined enrollment of about 70,590 students).

Nearest neighbor: First Street Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Creekside Oaks Elementary comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 44.3%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Creekside Oaks Elementary's enrollment has shrank 9% since 2018, when it stood at 613 (now 557). The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 35% to 56% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 24.0:1 in 2018 to 22.3:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Creekside Oaks Elementary typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.