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Alumni: what's one memory from Elitha Donner Elementary that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
706
Elementary
DISTRICT 767 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELK GROVE UNIFIED·NCES 061233003668
Elitha Donner Elementary
9461 Soaring Oaks Dr., Elk Grove, CA 95758 · (916) 683-3073 · Sacramento County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL706 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 49% of California public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C+Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
22.8:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 24.0:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
491 students
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 117 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 85 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 104 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 98 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 88 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 101 | 14% |
| Grade 6 | 113 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (117) is about the same size as its 6th grade class (113).
Student demographics
76%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
44.9%
CA avg 49.1% . +2.9pp since 2014
Math
36.3%
CA avg 37.7% . +2.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 2 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 20.2% | 24.7% | 21.8% | 33.3% |
| Math | 14.2% | 22.2% | 27.1% | 36.6% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.9% | 36.3% |
| 2023-24 | 44.4% | 37.5% |
| 2022-23 | 42.0% | 33.7% |
| 2021-22 | 46.6% | 33.8% |
| 2020-21 | 42.6% | 32.0% |
| 2018-19 | 49.2% | 35.1% |
| 2017-18 | 52.4% | 37.9% |
| 2016-17 | 47.2% | 39.2% |
| 2015-16 | 43.0% | 33.0% |
| 2014-15 | 42.0% | 34.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
40.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.8%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Elitha Donner Elementary
Elitha Donner Elementary's state test result (40.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elitha Donner Elementary this school | 706 | 69.5% | 40.7% |
| John Ehrhardt Elementary Elk Grove | 827 | 70.5% | 48.6% |
| Marion Mix Elementary Elk Grove | 736 | 65.6% | 44.2% |
| Delta View Elementary Pittsburg | 656 | 66.2% | 36.6% |
| Witter Ranch Elementary Sacramento | 621 | 73.6% | 34.7% |
| John Muir Elementary Stockton | 559 | 64.6% | 52.5% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Elitha Donner Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Sacramento County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.7% | #2,416 of 5,151 | #90 of 217 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.3% | #2,608 of 5,172 ▼ 222 | #96 of 217 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.9% | #2,460 of 5,172 ▼ 144 | #88 of 217 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +0.4pp | #3,207 of 5,116 | #124 of 213 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 706 | #722 of 5,915 | #50 of 238 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.8:1 | #2,800 of 5,352 | #86 of 227 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 76.3% | #52 of 5,354 | #19 of 227 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.5% | #2,982 of 5,625 | #118 of 235 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.7% | #778 of 1,139 | #47 of 64 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
706
+7 (+1%) vs 2020
-38% since 2000-01, when it was 1,131
Student : Teacher
22.8:1
was 24.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 706 | 31 | 22.8:1 | 70% (491) |
| 2023-24 | 757 | 32.1 | 23.6:1 | 65% (494) |
| 2022-23 | 740 | 31 | 23.9:1 | 51% (381) |
| 2020-21 | 699 | 29 | 24.1:1 | 49% (346) |
| 2017-18 | 674 | 26 | 25.9:1 | 56% (379) |
| 2015-16 | 741 | 38 | 19.5:1 | 62% (456) |
| 2010-11 | 931 | N/A | N/A | 52% (482) |
| 2000-01 | 1,131 | 53 | 21.3:1 | 20% (223) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Elitha Donner Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (674 to 706); teachers up 19% (26 to 31).
About Elitha Donner Elementary
Elitha Donner Elementary is a large elementary school that serves part of Elk Grove, California. It enrolls 706 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are kindergarten through 6. That puts enrollment 52% above the 465-student average for elementary schools in California.
Elitha Donner Elementary is one school in Elk Grove Unified, a system of 67 schools with 63,232 students.
About 33% of students at Elitha Donner Elementary are Asian, the largest single group. The rest of enrollment is 28% Hispanic, 17% White, 11% Black, and 9% multiracial. Among all residents of Sacramento County, the Asian share is about 18%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 76%.
There are about 22.8 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Elitha Donner Elementary, which has 31. The ratio is within a point of the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 70%.
Among California public elementary schools, Elitha Donner Elementary outscored 49%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
Elitha Donner Elementary is 1.9 points above its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (40.7% versus 38.8%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in California.
In Sacramento County, the median household earns about $92,175 a year, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Across Sacramento County, 387 public schools serve about 259,342 students.
A public school about 0.3 miles away, Harriet G. Eddy Middle, is the closest to Elitha Donner Elementary. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Elitha Donner Elementary. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Elitha Donner Elementary ranks 8th on average proficiency.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, Elitha Donner Elementary enrolled 699; in 2024-25, 706. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 22.8:1, from 24.1:1.
Use the discussion section to ask about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Elitha Donner Elementary. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Sacramento County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,594,006
Census ACS
Median income
$92,175
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
387
259,342 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Elk Grove Unified
- Franklin HighHigh · 2,650 students
- Pleasant Grove HighHigh · 2,536 students
- Sheldon HighHigh · 2,368 students
- Monterey Trail HighHigh · 2,263 students
- Laguna Creek HighHigh · 2,142 students
- Cosumnes Oaks HighHigh · 2,109 students
Other schools in Elk Grove
- Franklin HighHigh · 2,650 students
- Pleasant Grove HighHigh · 2,536 students
- Monterey Trail HighHigh · 2,263 students
- Laguna Creek HighHigh · 2,142 students
- Cosumnes Oaks HighHigh · 2,109 students
- Elk Grove HighHigh · 1,684 students
Nearby schools
- Harriet G. Eddy Middle0.3 mi · 1,034
- Foulks Ranch Elementary1.1 mi · 779
- Zehnder Ranch Elementary1.2 mi · 1,019
- Laguna Creek High1.3 mi · 2,142
- Arlene Hein Elementary1.3 mi · 817
- Ellen Feickert Elementary1.4 mi · 541
Frequently asked questions
About Elitha Donner ElementaryHow large is Elitha Donner Elementary?
Elitha Donner Elementary enrolls approximately 706 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Elitha Donner Elementary serve?
Elitha Donner Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Elitha Donner Elementary?
Approximately 22.8:1 students per teacher at Elitha Donner Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Elitha Donner Elementary?
Student demographics at Elitha Donner Elementary are roughly 17% White, 28% Hispanic, 11% Black, 33% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Elitha Donner Elementary in?
Elitha Donner Elementary is part of Elk Grove Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.