Edward Kemble Elementary

Edward Kemble Elementary is an elementary campus of middle-of-the-pack scale in Sacramento, California, overseen by Sacramento City Unified, hosting 454 students in grades K through 3.

Across the 73 schools in Sacramento City Unified (37,657 students total), Edward Kemble Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Edward Kemble Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 25% Asian, 8% Black, 5% White, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

Looking at school resources, Edward Kemble Elementary records 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.2:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 85% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Sacramento County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Edward Kemble Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.8%; this one delivers 24.3%.

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 the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Sacramento County runs 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), of which Edward Kemble Elementary is one.

Cesar Chavez Intermediate is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Edward Kemble Elementary. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Edward Kemble Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 22.7%.

Edward Kemble Elementary operates from an inner-city location.

Five-year trend. Edward Kemble Elementary's enrollment has shrank 25% since 2018, when it stood at 602 (now 454). Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 21% to 8%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 24.1:1 in 2018 to 20.2:1 in 2025.

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