Gold River Discovery Center K-8

As a sprawling K-5 school in Gold River, California, Gold River Discovery Center K-8 serves 712 students from grades K through 8, one of the schools within San Juan Unified. That puts it 53% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

San Juan Unified runs 67 schools in total, collectively educating 39,171 students. Gold River Discovery Center K-8 is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Gold River Discovery Center K-8 logs that White students make up the majority at 58%. Beyond that, the school records 19% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 8% Asian, 3% Black. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 45%.

On the resource side, Gold River Discovery Center K-8 logs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.5:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 31% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Sacramento County's rate of about 63%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Gold River Discovery Center K-8 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.9%, the actual is 50.0%, a residual of -11.0 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Sacramento County indicate median household earnings sit near $92,175, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Sacramento County's 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), Gold River Discovery Center K-8 is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Meraki High, around 1.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Gold River Discovery Center K-8 at 2nd of 4; the average score across the group is 32.1%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Gold River Discovery Center K-8's enrollment has edged down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 821 (now 712). Asian enrollment moved from 14% to 8% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 25.7:1 in 2018 to 23.5:1 today.

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