John H. Still

John H. Still is an elementary-level community of mid-tier scale in Sacramento, California, overseen by Sacramento City Unified, caters to 655 students in grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so John H. Still sits 41% larger than that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, John H. Still logs that the most-represented group is Asian (36%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 33% Hispanic, 13% Black, 9% Pacific Islander, 6% multiracial. That is visibly more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 18%.

On the income-and-resources front, John H. Still records 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting John H. Still higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 82% of students at John H. Still qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Sacramento County's rate of about 63%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, John H. Still performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 30.8%, the actual is 21.2%, a residual of -9.6 points.

Around the school, Sacramento County reports that the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 John H. Still is one.

Capitol Collegiate Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around John H. Still. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts John H. Still at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 20.9%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 32%: 963 students in 2018 compared to 655 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 21% to 13%.

Inside the community feed, members of the John H. Still community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.