King Avenue Elementary

King Avenue Elementary, a low-enrollment elementary school in Yuba City, California, operated by Yuba City Unified, educates 380 students, covering grades K through 5.

Yuba City Unified comprises 17 schools with combined enrollment of 11,388 students; King Avenue Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, King Avenue Elementary lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 61%. Other groups include 20% White, 8% multiracial, 6% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Sutter County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting King Avenue Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 95% of students at King Avenue Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Sutter County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), King Avenue Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 32.0%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Sutter County) logs that median household earnings sit near $79,704, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. King Avenue Elementary is one of 46 public schools in Sutter County (combined enrollment of about 23,784 students).

The closest other public school is April Lane Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), King Avenue Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 23.4%.

King Avenue Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. King Avenue Elementary's enrollment has rose 5% since 2018, when it stood at 361 (now 380). The White share of enrollment shrank from 29% to 20% over that span.

On the community side, members of the King Avenue Elementary community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.