John Reith Elementary

John Reith Elementary is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary schools in Sacramento, California, part of Elk Grove Unified, with 572 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. That puts it 23% above the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Elk Grove Unified, which oversees 67 schools and 63,232 students, John Reith Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, John Reith Elementary records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 29% Asian, 14% Black, 8% multiracial, 6% White. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, John Reith Elementary shows 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 22.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Sacramento County (around 63%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, John Reith Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.4%, the actual is 17.2%, a residual of -10.2 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Sacramento County put the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. John Reith Elementary is one of 387 public schools in Sacramento County (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students).

Valley High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, John Reith Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 28.1%.

John Reith Elementary operates from a city-core location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 5%: 546 students in 2018 compared to 572 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 33% to 41% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 24.8:1 in 2018 to 22.9:1 today.

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