Foulks Ranch Elementary

Foulks Ranch Elementary operates as a big elementary campus in Elk Grove, California, run under Elk Grove Unified. Current enrollment sits at 779 students spanning grades K through 6. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Foulks Ranch Elementary sits 68% above that benchmark.

Elk Grove Unified runs 67 schools in total, collectively educating 63,232 students. Foulks Ranch Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Foulks Ranch Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 32%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 30% White, 16% Asian, 12% multiracial, 9% Black.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Sacramento County's rate of about 63%.

After controlling for student poverty, Foulks Ranch Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.8%, the actual is 48.1%, a residual of -1.6 points.

In the area at large, census data for Sacramento County shows median household income runs about $92,175, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Sacramento County's 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), Foulks Ranch Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Laguna Creek High, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Foulks Ranch Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 47.7%.

Foulks Ranch Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Foulks Ranch Elementary has shrank 13%, going from 895 students in 2018 to 779 in 2025.

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