Ethel I. Baker Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Sacramento, California, Ethel I. Baker Elementary works with 608 students from grades K through 6, one of the schools within Sacramento City Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 31% above typical.

Sacramento City Unified runs 73 schools in total, collectively educating 37,657 students. Ethel I. Baker Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Ethel I. Baker Elementary reports that 63% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 19% Asian, 5% Black, 5% Pacific Islander, 4% White. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Ethel I. Baker Elementary has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 25.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Ethel I. Baker Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 83% of students at Ethel I. Baker Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Sacramento County's rate of about 63%.

After controlling for student poverty, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Ethel I. Baker Elementary sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 30.3%; actual is 11.1%, a gap of -19.2 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Sacramento County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Sacramento County's 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), Ethel I. Baker Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Pacific Elementary, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ethel I. Baker Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 26.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ethel I. Baker Elementary has decreased 11%, going from 685 students in 2018 to 608 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 59% to 63% over that span.

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