James Marshall Elementary

As a compact elementary-level community in Sacramento, California, James Marshall Elementary instructs 337 students from grades K through 6, overseen by Sacramento City Unified. That puts it 28% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Sacramento City Unified, which oversees 73 schools and 37,657 students, James Marshall Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, James Marshall Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 21% White, 18% Asian, 14% Black, 11% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, James Marshall Elementary reports 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 20.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 73% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Sacramento County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, James Marshall Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.8%, the actual is 32.9%, a residual of -3.0 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Sacramento County put median household income runs about $92,175, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Sacramento County runs 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), of which James Marshall Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is El Centro Jr./Sr. High, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, James Marshall Elementary comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 26.0%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 15%: 396 students in 2018 compared to 337 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 33% to 21% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 23.3:1 in 2018 to 20.4:1 in 2025.

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