Ethel Phillips Elementary

Ethel Phillips Elementary is a reasonably sized K-5 school in Sacramento, California, one of the schools within Sacramento City Unified. The school instructs 428 students in grades K through 6.

Ethel Phillips Elementary is one of 73 schools operated by Sacramento City Unified, a district that educates 37,657 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Ethel Phillips Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 79% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 7% White, 7% Asian, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the resource side, The school employs 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 85% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Sacramento County (around 63%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Ethel Phillips Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.7%; this one delivers 22.5%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Sacramento County) records that the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Sacramento County runs 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), of which Ethel Phillips Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: St. HOPE Public School 7, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ethel Phillips Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 27.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Ethel Phillips Elementary's enrollment has decreased 14% since 2018, when it stood at 495 (now 428).

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