Excelsior Elementary

Located at 2701 Eureka Rd., in Roseville, California, Excelsior Elementary is a tight-knit junior high that hosts 469 students (grades 4 through 6), part of Eureka Union. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Excelsior Elementary sits 29% smaller than that benchmark.

Eureka Union comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,455 students; Excelsior Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Excelsior Elementary records that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 16% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 11% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 69%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 27.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Excelsior Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 22% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Placer County (around 33%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Excelsior Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.3%; this one delivers 66.7%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Placer County put median household earnings sit near $115,998, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Placer County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 70,590 students), of which Excelsior Elementary is one.

George Sargeant Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Excelsior Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 63.5%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Excelsior Elementary's enrollment has contracted 10% since 2018, when it stood at 523 (now 469). Over the same period, the Asian share increased from 7% to 14%.

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