John Bidwell Elementary

John Bidwell Elementary, a close-knit elementary-level community in Sacramento, California, run under Sacramento City Unified, works with 262 students, covering grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 44% below the state mean of about 465.

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

In terms of who attends, John Bidwell Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 19% Asian, 16% Black, 8% White, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 24% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 23.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 77% of students at John Bidwell Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Sacramento County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, John Bidwell Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.8%, the actual is 23.7%, a residual of -10.1 points.

Around the school, census data for Sacramento County shows median household income runs about $92,175, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. John Bidwell Elementary is one of 387 public schools in Sacramento County (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students).

The closest other public school is John Morse Therapeutic Center, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts John Bidwell Elementary at 2nd of 5; the average score across the group is 21.7%.

John Bidwell Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at John Bidwell Elementary has edged down 17%, going from 317 students in 2018 to 262 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 23% to 16% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.8:1 in 2018 to 23.4:1 today.

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