Helen Carr Castello Elementary

Helen Carr Castello Elementary is a well-populated K-5 school in Elk Grove, California, operated by Elk Grove Unified. The school instructs 790 students in grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 70% bigger than the state mean of about 465.

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

On demographics, Helen Carr Castello Elementary lists that 43% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 24% Hispanic, 13% White, 12% multiracial, 7% Black. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 18% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Helen Carr Castello Elementary has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Around 50% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Sacramento County's rate of about 63%.

With demographic context factored in, Helen Carr Castello Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 58.5%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Sacramento County shows median household earnings sit near $92,175, 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), Helen Carr Castello Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Elk Grove Charter, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Helen Carr Castello Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 54.9%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 15%: 928 students in 2018 compared to 790 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share edged up from 32% to 43%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 25.8:1 in 2018 to 23.9:1 in 2025.

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