Folsom High

Folsom High operates as a high-enrollment 9-12 campus in Folsom, California, operated by Folsom-Cordova Unified. Current enrollment sits at 2,901 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 838 students per school, that is 246% bigger than typical.

Folsom High is one of 35 schools operated by Folsom-Cordova Unified, a district that caters to 21,699 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Folsom High logs that the largest single group is White at 41%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 29% Asian, 16% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 3% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Folsom High reports 118 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 24.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.2:1, putting Folsom High higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Sacramento County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Folsom High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.0%, the actual is 65.9%, a residual of -1.1 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Sacramento County indicate 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), Folsom High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Folsom Lake High, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Folsom High. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Folsom High ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 64.4%.

Folsom High operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Folsom High has climbed 20%, going from 2,426 students in 2018 to 2,901 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 57% to 41% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 25.9:1 in 2018 to 24.7:1 today.

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