Federal Terrace Elementary

Federal Terrace Elementary is a K-5 school of compact scale in Vallejo, California, operated by Vallejo City Unified, works with 228 students in grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 51% below typical.

Federal Terrace Elementary is one of 20 schools operated by Vallejo City Unified, a district that serves 9,638 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Federal Terrace Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 28% Black, 17% Asian, 4% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Solano County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Federal Terrace Elementary has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 84% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Solano County (around 60%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Federal Terrace Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.6%, the actual is 22.0%, a residual of -7.6 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Solano County put the typical household earns roughly $100,401 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Solano County runs 110 public schools (combined enrollment of about 60,765 students), of which Federal Terrace Elementary is one.

Caliber: ChangeMakers Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 42%: 391 students in 2018 compared to 228 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.4:1 in 2018 to 24.0:1 today.

On this page, members of the Federal Terrace Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.