Elk Grove Charter

Elk Grove Charter, an one-room-style 9-12 campus in Elk Grove, California, operated by Elk Grove Unified, serves 262 students, covering grades 7 through 12. By comparison, California's public schools average about 838 students each, so Elk Grove Charter sits 69% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Elk Grove Unified, which oversees 67 schools and 63,232 students, Elk Grove Charter is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Elk Grove Charter lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 24% White, 13% Black, 12% multiracial, 11% Asian. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Elk Grove Charter reports 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Elk Grove Charter higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 57% of students at Elk Grove Charter qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Elk Grove Charter sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.4%; this one delivers 33.0%.

Around the school, census data for Sacramento County shows median household income runs about $92,175, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Sacramento County's 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), Elk Grove Charter is one campus in the mix.

Toby Johnson Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Elk Grove Charter comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 61.2%.

The school occupies a residential site. Elk Grove Charter is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 8%: 242 students in 2018 compared to 262 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 20% to 13%. Class-load math has loosened: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 19.2:1 in 2025.

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