Folsom Hills Elementary

Folsom Hills Elementary is one of the average-sized elementary-level communitys in Folsom, California, one of the schools within Folsom-Cordova Unified, with 496 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Folsom Hills Elementary is one of 35 schools operated by Folsom-Cordova Unified, a district that works with 21,699 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Folsom Hills Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 17% Hispanic, 15% multiracial, 13% Asian. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 45% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Folsom Hills Elementary has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 10% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Sacramento County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Folsom Hills Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.8%, the actual is 75.9%, a residual of +2.2 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Sacramento County shows median household income runs about $92,175, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Sacramento County runs 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), of which Folsom Hills Elementary is one.

Oak Chan Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Folsom Hills Elementary. On composite proficiency, Folsom Hills Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 68.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 11%: 557 students in 2018 compared to 496 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 66% to 55% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 23.2:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.