Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the sprawling elementary-level communitys in Sacramento, California, run under Sacramento City Unified, with 822 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Leonardo Da Vinci sits 77% above that benchmark.

Leonardo Da Vinci is one of 73 schools operated by Sacramento City Unified, a district that works with 37,657 students overall.

On demographics, Leonardo Da Vinci lists that 36% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 34% White, 12% multiracial, 10% Asian, 6% Black. By comparison, Sacramento County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Leonardo Da Vinci has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 27% of students at Leonardo Da Vinci qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Sacramento County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Leonardo Da Vinci sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.5%; this one delivers 56.6%.

Around the school, Sacramento County reports that the typical household earns roughly $92,175 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Sacramento County's 387 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,342 students), Leonardo Da Vinci is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Hollywood Park Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Leonardo Da Vinci ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 29.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Leonardo Da Vinci has fell 5%, going from 869 students in 2018 to 822 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 43% to 34%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 23.6:1 in 2018 to 21.9:1 in 2025.

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