Dry Creek Elementary

Set in Rio Linda, California, Dry Creek Elementary is a medium-sized elementary-level community, run under Twin Rivers Unified. It enrolls 645 students across grades K through 6. That puts it 39% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Dry Creek Elementary is one of 44 schools operated by Twin Rivers Unified, a district that instructs 24,770 students overall.

On demographics, Dry Creek Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 27% White, 11% Asian, 9% multiracial, 2% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Dry Creek Elementary has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.8:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 85% of students at Dry Creek Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Sacramento County (around 63%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Dry Creek Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.8%, the actual is 40.2%, a residual of +11.4 points.

Across the wider county, Sacramento County reports that the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Dry Creek Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Rio Linda High, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Dry Creek Elementary at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 33.5%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Dry Creek Elementary's enrollment has ticked up 45% since 2018, when it stood at 444 (now 645). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 39% to 27% over that span.

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