Dyer-Kelly Elementary

Dyer-Kelly Elementary operates as a sizable primary school in Sacramento, California, overseen by San Juan Unified. Current enrollment sits at 735 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 58% above the state mean of about 465.

San Juan Unified comprises 67 schools with combined enrollment of 39,171 students; Dyer-Kelly Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Dyer-Kelly Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Asian (43%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 22% White, 22% Hispanic, 6% Black, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 18% Asian, putting the school's mix noticeably more Asian than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Sacramento County's rate of about 63%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Dyer-Kelly Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 27.4%; actual is 7.5%, a gap of -19.9 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Sacramento County put median household earnings sit near $92,175, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Sacramento County's 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), Dyer-Kelly Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Marconi Learning Academy, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dyer-Kelly Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Dyer-Kelly Elementary at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 15.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Dyer-Kelly Elementary's enrollment has climbed 48% since 2018, when it stood at 496 (now 735). Over the same period, the Asian share edged up from 23% to 43%.

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