Harry Dewey Fundamental Elementary

Harry Dewey Fundamental Elementary, a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Fair Oaks, California, one of the schools within San Juan Unified, works with 408 students, covering grades K through 6.

Across the 67 schools in San Juan Unified (39,171 students total), Harry Dewey Fundamental Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Harry Dewey Fundamental Elementary reports that 64% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 22% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 45%.

On the income-and-resources front, Harry Dewey Fundamental Elementary lists 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.1:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 45% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Harry Dewey Fundamental Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.8%, the actual is 40.5%, a residual of -12.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Sacramento County put median household income runs about $92,175, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Sacramento County's 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), Harry Dewey Fundamental Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Will Rogers Middle, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Harry Dewey Fundamental Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 31.2%.

Harry Dewey Fundamental Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Harry Dewey Fundamental Elementary's enrollment has fell 17% since 2018, when it stood at 490 (now 408). Over the same period, the White share fell from 77% to 64%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 22.1:1 in 2025.

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