Foothill Oaks Elementary

As a mid-tier elementary campus in Sacramento, California, Foothill Oaks Elementary serves 508 students from grades K through 6, operated by Twin Rivers Unified.

Across the 44 schools in Twin Rivers Unified (24,770 students total), Foothill Oaks Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Foothill Oaks Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 30% White, 11% Black, 10% multiracial, 7% Asian. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Foothill Oaks Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 83% of students are eligible 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 higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Foothill Oaks Elementary ranks in the top 10% of California public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 30.0%; Foothill Oaks Elementary posts 48.9%, +18.9 points above that line.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Sacramento County put median household income runs about $92,175, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Foothill Oaks Elementary is one of 387 public schools in Sacramento County (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students).

The closest other public school is Frontier Elementary, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Foothill Oaks Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 31.5%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 5%: 535 students in 2018 compared to 508 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 35% to 30%.

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