Florence Markofer Elementary

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Elk Grove, California, Florence Markofer Elementary teaches 670 students from grades K through 6, run under Elk Grove Unified. That puts it 44% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Elk Grove Unified comprises 67 schools with combined enrollment of 63,232 students; Florence Markofer Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Florence Markofer Elementary records that the most-represented group is White (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 36% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 10% multiracial, 4% Black.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Sacramento County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Florence Markofer Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.1%, the actual is 46.6%, a residual of -0.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Sacramento County) reports 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%. Florence Markofer Elementary is one of 387 public schools in Sacramento County (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students).

Nearest neighbor: Elk Grove High, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Florence Markofer Elementary at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 51.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Five-year trend. Florence Markofer Elementary's enrollment has shrank 7% since 2018, when it stood at 719 (now 670). Over the same period, the White share fell from 52% to 37%. Class-load math has fell: from 24.7:1 in 2018 to 22.3:1 in 2025.

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