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What's the vibe like in the hallways at Gold River Discovery Center K-8 right now?
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Enrollment
712
Elementary
DISTRICT 480 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SAN JUAN UNIFIED·NCES 063462002560
Gold River Discovery Center K-8
2200 Roaring Camp Dr., Gold River, CA 95670 · (916) 971-5349 · Sacramento County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL712 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 36% of California public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- DThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
23.5:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 24.5:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
222 students
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 120 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 79 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 66 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 9% |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 64 | 9% |
| Grade 7 | 65 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 90 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (120) is 33% larger than its 8th grade class (90).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
57.1%
CA avg 49.1% . -9.9pp since 2014
Math
46.8%
CA avg 37.7% . -14.2pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 10 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 14 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 22.4% | 34.7% | 21.1% | 21.8% |
| Math | 20.8% | 26.1% | 29.6% | 23.6% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.1% | 46.8% |
| 2023-24 | 54.6% | 45.5% |
| 2022-23 | 60.0% | 48.2% |
| 2021-22 | 65.3% | 48.4% |
| 2018-19 | 66.8% | 62.1% |
| 2017-18 | 65.8% | 65.4% |
| 2016-17 | 62.2% | 62.5% |
| 2015-16 | 66.0% | 64.0% |
| 2014-15 | 67.0% | 61.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
51.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.3%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Gold River Discovery Center K-8
Gold River Discovery Center K-8's state test result (51.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold River Discovery Center K-8 this school | 712 | 31.2% | 51.2% |
| Pleasant Hill Elementary Pleasant Hill | 652 | 26.8% | 56.9% |
| Mariemont Elementary Sacramento | 589 | 26.5% | 64.7% |
| Hope Elementary Carlsbad | 659 | 27.2% | 71.8% |
| Grant K-8 San Diego | 743 | 29.7% | 68.9% |
| Classical Academy Vista Vista | 651 | 28.0% | N/A |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Gold River Discovery Center K-8 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Sacramento County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 51.2% | #1,637 of 5,151 | #56 of 217 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.8% | #1,802 of 5,172 ▼ 18 | #63 of 217 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.1% | #1,533 of 5,172 ▲ 45 | #55 of 217 ▼ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -4.9pp | #588 of 5,116 | #28 of 213 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 712 | #700 of 5,915 | #49 of 238 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 23.5:1 | #3,340 of 5,352 | #115 of 227 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.6% | #1,770 of 5,354 | #183 of 227 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.2% | #4,712 of 5,625 | #208 of 235 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.3% | #2,253 of 3,837 | #76 of 145 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
712
+6 (+1%) vs 2020
+5% since 2000-01, when it was 675
Student : Teacher
23.5:1
was 22.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 712 | 30.4 | 23.5:1 | 31% (222) |
| 2023-24 | 722 | 31.5 | 22.9:1 | 32% (231) |
| 2022-23 | 699 | 30.8 | 22.7:1 | 29% (202) |
| 2020-21 | 706 | 32 | 22.1:1 | 17% (123) |
| 2017-18 | 821 | 31.9 | 25.7:1 | 23% (188) |
| 2015-16 | 836 | 30 | 27.9:1 | 21% (174) |
| 2010-11 | 759 | N/A | N/A | 14% (109) |
| 2000-01 | 675 | 32 | 21.1:1 | 3% (22) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Gold River Discovery Center K-8.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (821 to 712); teachers down 5% (31.9 to 30.4).
About Gold River Discovery Center K-8
Gold River Discovery Center K-8 is a high-enrollment elementary school in Gold River, California, (ZIP code 95670). The school runs kindergarten through 8 and enrolls 712 students. By comparison, elementary schools in California enroll about 465 students on average.
San Juan Unified oversees Gold River Discovery Center K-8 and 66 other schools, with 39,171 students in total.
Federal enrollment data show Gold River Discovery Center K-8 is 58% White. The next largest groups are 19% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 8% Asian, and 3% Black. The school's White share is 14 points above the 45% share among Sacramento County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 61%.
Gold River Discovery Center K-8 has 30.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 23.5:1. The school's 23.5:1 compares with an average of 22.3:1 for elementary schools in California. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 31%. That is 32 points below the 63% average for public schools in Sacramento County.
Gold River Discovery Center K-8 earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 36% of California public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 61.3% for Gold River Discovery Center K-8. The school posts 51.2%, 10.0 points below the prediction.
Census data for Sacramento County show the median household earns about $92,175 a year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Sacramento County number 387, with about 259,342 students.
Meraki High is about 1.5 miles from Gold River Discovery Center K-8, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, Gold River Discovery Center K-8 ranks 2nd in a group of 4 nearby schools.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 712, starting from 706. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 22.1:1 in 2020-21 to 23.5:1 in 2024-25.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Sacramento County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,594,006
Census ACS
Median income
$92,175
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
387
259,342 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in San Juan Unified
- Bella Vista HighHigh · 1,939 students
- Rio Americano HighHigh · 1,891 students
- Mira Loma HighHigh · 1,655 students
- Del Campo HighHigh · 1,548 students
- El Camino Fundamental HighHigh · 1,226 students
- Casa Roble Fundamental HighHigh · 1,150 students
Nearby schools
- Meraki High1.5 mi · 93
- El Sereno Alternative Education1.5 mi · 166
- Earl LeGette Elementary1.6 mi · 622
- W. E. Mitchell Middle1.9 mi · 755
- Williamson Elementary2.1 mi · 489
- Walnutwood High (Independent Study)2.1 mi · 221
Frequently asked questions
About Gold River Discovery Center K-8What is the total enrollment at Gold River Discovery Center K-8?
Gold River Discovery Center K-8 enrolls approximately 712 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does Gold River Discovery Center K-8 serve?
Gold River Discovery Center K-8 serves grades KG-08.
How many students per teacher at Gold River Discovery Center K-8?
Approximately 23.5:1 students per teacher at Gold River Discovery Center K-8.
How diverse is Gold River Discovery Center K-8?
Gold River Discovery Center K-8 reports a student body of 58% White, 19% Hispanic, 3% Black, 8% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Is Gold River Discovery Center K-8 public or private?
Gold River Discovery Center K-8 is a public K-12 school, overseen by San Juan Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.