El Centro Jr./Sr. High

As a rural-scale four-year high school in Sacramento, California, El Centro Jr./Sr. High enrolls 76 students from grades 5 through 12, operated by Sacramento County Office of Education. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so El Centro Jr./Sr. High sits 91% leaner than that benchmark.

El Centro Jr./Sr. High is one of 6 schools operated by Sacramento County Office of Education, a district that caters to 815 students overall.

Looking at the student body, El Centro Jr./Sr. High shows that 46% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 34% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 7% White. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 9% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, El Centro Jr./Sr. High has 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.2:1. The state averages around 18.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 96% of students at El Centro Jr./Sr. High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Sacramento County's rate of about 63%.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Sacramento County indicate the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Sacramento County's 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), El Centro Jr./Sr. High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Rosemont High, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around El Centro Jr./Sr. High.

El Centro Jr./Sr. High operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. El Centro Jr./Sr. High's enrollment has contracted 32% since 2018, when it stood at 112 (now 76). Over the same period, the Black share climbed from 32% to 46%. Class-load math has rose: from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

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