Elitha Donner Elementary

Set in Elk Grove, California, Elitha Donner Elementary is a roomy elementary campus, run under Elk Grove Unified. It enrolls 706 students across grades K through 6. That puts it 52% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Across the 67 schools in Elk Grove Unified (63,232 students total), Elitha Donner Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Elitha Donner Elementary shows that the largest single group is Asian at 33%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 28% Hispanic, 17% White, 11% Black, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 18% Asian, so the school skews noticeably more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.8:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 70% of students at Elitha Donner Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Elitha Donner Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.1%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Sacramento County) reports that median household earnings sit near $92,175, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Elitha Donner Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Harriet G. Eddy Middle, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Elitha Donner Elementary comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 54.4%.

Elitha Donner Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Elitha Donner Elementary's enrollment has rose 5% since 2018, when it stood at 674 (now 706). Asian enrollment moved from 22% to 33% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 25.9:1 in 2018 to 22.8:1 in 2025.

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