Gold Ridge Elementary

Gold Ridge Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Folsom, California, part of Folsom-Cordova Unified. The school caters to 496 students in grades K through 5.

Folsom-Cordova Unified comprises 35 schools with combined enrollment of 21,699 students; Gold Ridge Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Gold Ridge Elementary logs that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 27% Asian, 18% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 2% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Gold Ridge Elementary has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.0:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 27% of students at Gold Ridge Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Sacramento County's rate of about 63%.

With demographic context factored in, Gold Ridge Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.5%, the actual is 60.4%, a residual of -3.1 points.

Across the wider county, Sacramento County reports that the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Sacramento County's 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), Gold Ridge Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Folsom High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Gold Ridge Elementary. On composite proficiency, Gold Ridge Elementary comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 72.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 19%: 612 students in 2018 compared to 496 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment edged down from 39% to 27% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.5:1 in 2018 to 22.0:1 today.

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