John Morse Therapeutic Center

John Morse Therapeutic Center operates as a micro-enrollment primary school in Sacramento, California, one of the schools within Sacramento City Unified. Current enrollment sits at 15 students spanning grades K through 8. That puts it 97% below the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Sacramento City Unified comprises 73 schools with combined enrollment of 37,657 students; John Morse Therapeutic Center is among them.

On the student-mix side, John Morse Therapeutic Center logs that the most-represented group is Black (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 27% White, 27% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 9%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 5 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 2.8:1. 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, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Sacramento County's rate of about 63%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Sacramento County put median household income runs about $92,175, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Sacramento County runs 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), of which John Morse Therapeutic Center is one.

The closest other public school is John Bidwell Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around John Morse Therapeutic Center.

John Morse Therapeutic Center operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 67%: 45 students in 2018 compared to 15 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 18% to 27% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 6.0:1 in 2018 to 2.8:1 today.

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